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

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Post by jobs_throwaway »

tibbon wrote: post #17
jobs_throwaway wrote: post #11

wild how so many companies are laying off 7-15% of their workforce in such quick succession

It doesn't appear that any of the big ones are completely reversing their hiring sprees from the past 3 years; rather they are re-adjusting in realizing that can't hit their profit targets at this rate, and that many of their ambitious projects aren't panning out. Many of these companies ballooned their hiring during covid, increasing at 20%-40% a year (or more!)

yeah, headcount numbers are still net increased. Just jarring to see so many layoff headlines

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

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Post by fnordpiglet »

ushakov wrote: post #128
electrondood wrote: post #23

When I visited the GitHub office in SF in 2017, it was nearly empty. Given how extravagant and beautiful it is, it struck me as a colossal waste of money even then.

They even had a full-scale replica of the Oval Office there https://twitter.com/harrymccracken/status/710956599477534720...

Uh wtf

I want to have something more useful to say to contribute meaningfully here. But my brain segfaulted.

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

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Post by ilrwbwrkhv »

mathverse wrote: post #30

I am absolutely certain this is to suppress wages and employee rights. It is a coordinated effort across the industry and should be immediately investigated.

Nah. These are all dumb companies which people shouldn't have joined in the first place. You won't find companies like Valve doing this. Join a good company people, instead of dumb, boring ones run by another run of the mill CEO.

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

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Post by savanaly »

agilob wrote: post #148
roboben wrote: post #27

The worst part of this is that everyone at GitHub is now forced to use Microsoft Teams.

I know I'm in the minority here, but I choose Teams over Slack any day. I much prefer thread-based chat than message based chat. Teams forces people to use top message as a topic, then respond to messages under that topic. Slack message is just a message. You want to search something on Teams, you get full threads, chat is part of documentation. You want to find something on Slack, you need to click on date of the re…

I'm quite confused because almost all conversation in my company's slack happens in threads. Maybe your impression of Slack was formed in a time when they didn't have threads?

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

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Post by pm90 »

Dopameaner wrote: post #144

An observation, Microsoft subsidiaries are being told to use teams. Cisco subsidiaries are being told to use webex in place of slack. We might be in a new world of chaos

I feel like this is a good argument to not allow mega mergers and consolidations. Github/LinkedIn etc could have both been operating as Public companies and not have to deal with this BS.

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

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Post by gertlex »

m-ee wrote: post #48
patrakov wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But what's wrong with Teams? It works well enough for me in Firefox on Linux. But OK, I only joined customer-initiated meetings, and was never presenting, only watching and talking, so maybe never used some important but non-working feature.

-It regularly sends me notifications that there’s new messages in threads I’m in. The new messages are from me -The phone dial in option doesn’t exist when you call someone through teams. Only on scheduled meetings. My laptop has audio issues so I have to awkwardly decline calls and send a meeting invite to whoever was trying to reach me. -Sharing a file in the chat for a meeting puts it into some incomprehensible in…

On my (Android) phone: In order to use bluetooth headphones, I have to FIRST open the "join meeting" screen, connect the device (or turn off, then turn back on if I was already using it), then join.

Only app that has this issue with bluetooth audio. WTF.

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

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Post by jontro »

mullen wrote: post #145
m-ee wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

-It regularly sends me notifications that there’s new messages in threads I’m in. The new messages are from me -The phone dial in option doesn’t exist when you call someone through teams. Only on scheduled meetings. My laptop has audio issues so I have to awkwardly decline calls and send a meeting invite to whoever was trying to reach me. -Sharing a file in the chat for a meeting puts it into some incomprehensible in…

The thing that drives me crazy about Teams is that I can't figure out how to start a quick meeting. Just a single button that is easy to find that when I click it, it just makes a meeting for me. Does not matter the team or organization, just make a meeting and let me copy the details to send to people.

Just checked, press the calendar and click meet now.

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

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Post by seti0Cha »

mardifoufs wrote: post #25
jiocrag wrote: post #7

Fortune now confirming: https://fortune.com/2023/02/09/github-is-laying-off-10-of-st...

>i) Effective immediately, we will be moving laptop refreshes from three years to four years. ii) We will be moving to Microsoft Teams for the sole purpose of video conferencing, saving significant cost and simplifying cross-company and customer conversations Layoffs and having to use teams? Talk about a morale hit

I've never used Teams. Why does everybody hate it?
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