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Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Post by willio58 »

lampshades wrote: post #5

This really is the techpocalypse, huh? I’m young (35) but I’ve never seen layoffs so continuous. I wonder how far into the year this will go and if we’ll ever come back. Maybe companies truly will start offshoring.

It's really nothing to worry about for the average dev. Companies are taking this opportunity to cull the heard of the under-performers. Doing so at this time means they'll stir up less controversy since every tech company is doing the same.

Github grips immense power and money. Just look at their position.

1. Owned by Microsoft but allowed to operate independently.

2. Microsoft owns VScode and now works closely with OpenAI, OpenAI is used for Copilot.

3. Created Copilot. For some this is not a big deal but for me in my tech stack it's been life changing. I save about 15-20% of my time by using it. This is an insane advancement that's only rivaled by ChatGPT for productivity (Another OpenAI project). Because Microsoft owns VScode, of course there's tight integration with Copilot there.

4. It's freaking Github, they house code for a huge portion of all code projects. 85% market share I think. They use the code to train copilot and whatever else.

Now you tell me why a company in this position had to lay off 10% of staff today. They didn't. They wanted to. That's fine, they're a company and sometimes culling the heard is the right thing to do. It just grinds my gears when companies act like it's what they needed to do. I'd rather they be honest and just say their true intentions.

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Post by burlesona »

dangwhy wrote: post #53

when will these layoffs reflect in boom town housing markets ?

SF Housing is already dropping, but unfortunately it's so expensive that even a substantial drop of 10-20% would still leave it as one of the most expensive markets in the country.

The supply shortage is so severe that it would take a crushing local depression to balance out.

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Post by [deleted] »

dehrmann wrote: post #24
lampshades wrote: post #5

This really is the techpocalypse, huh? I’m young (35) but I’ve never seen layoffs so continuous. I wonder how far into the year this will go and if we’ll ever come back. Maybe companies truly will start offshoring.

This is nothing compared to 2000, or even 2008. You might have a point about offshoring. With tech workers insisting they're just as productive working from home, you might as well hire people in countries with cheaper homes.

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Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Post by proc0 »

nfw2 wrote: post #75
xpe wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This metaphor doesn't work for me. Source code is not analogous to organizational behavior. Not to mention it gives readers confused context about the link, which is about GitLab layoffs.

It's not a metaphor...it's a joke

Or maybe a prediction.

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Post by chem83 »

Ancalagon wrote: post #61

Didnt MS want everyone back in office? I'm confused? Or do github employees now only have access to MS offices?

This doesn't directly answer your question, but Microsoft is known for enforcing policies differently across its companies. For example, LinkedIn employees sharing an office and cafeteria with Microsoft employees don't have to pay for lunch when they badge in at the cashier, but Microsoft employees do pay.

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Post by kerpotgh »

wojcikstefan wrote: post #22

My heart goes out to the laid off employees, though I think they'll be able to find solid jobs (or start their own companies) when they're ready. What I'm more surprised by is: 1. GitHub operating so independently from Microsoft at large that they have their own layoffs (not included in the 10k people that Microsoft announced they'll be parting ways with). 2. GitHub operating SO INDEPENDENTLY that they can decide to…

I think it’s something to celebrate. It’s the best case scenario when you’re acquired by a megacorp.

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Post by sleepybrett »

roboben wrote: post #82
bleuchase wrote: post #74

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They’re keeping Slack. Zoom is going away.

Why don’t they use Huddle then?

I dunno what is wrong with huddles but when i screenshare with huddle my cpu goes crazy. screensharing with zoom, no serious performance issue.

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Post by reidjs »

can16358p wrote: post #105
roboben wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why don’t they use Huddle then?

I love Slack but Huddle is absolutely terrible. Extremely low audio quality with extreme latency (whereas I have superb quality and low latency on Meet and Zoom on same devices/connections).

I’ve never had an issue with it, and found the video quality to be better than Meet, but about on par with zoom

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

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Post by xur17 »

m348e912 wrote: post #86
flappyeagle wrote: post #52

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If I were forced to use teams I would quit. At least if you're laid off you get serverance

>>If I were forced to use teams I would quit. It's funny to hear this because if I were looking for a job one of the selling points for me would be if they used teams. I'm on it all day, I present and run video meetings on it. I use it on different devices. It's not perfect by any means, but I'm confident that it will do what I need it to do. My only guess is you're on a linux desktop and you don't use an enterprise…

> My only guess is you're on a linux desktop and you don't use an enterprise deployment of teams

Is there an enterprise deployment of teams that makes it not suck on linux?

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