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CEO Announcement to the Netlify Team

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Re: CEO Announcement to the Netlify Team

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> From 2020 to 2023 we grew our team substantially and added layers of management. We now need to simplify Netlify to be more nimble,

Does this mean they got rid of directors and VPs? If not, this restructuring is meaningless. Without engineers, nothing is going to get built.

Re: CEO Announcement to the Netlify Team

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46 people were affected.

Glassdoor reports Netlify as having 51-200 employees, so based on your 46 number this layoff affected anywhere between 23% and 90% of Netlify's employees. Pretty disturbing.

the info on glassdoor is not correct.

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The wording is to reassure investors. They don't care about the employees.

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Then again, I can think of nothing more American than good people suffering under the poor decisions of bad people. That's like our entire history.

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Wow this seems really poorly worded. On one hand, the CEO is upbeat about the future and yaks on about strategy and in the same breath says "you're fired". Seems very insensitive. Laying people off isn't the time for a pep talk and ra ra rally on the strategy. IMO if you have to lay people off then the focus should be the people being laid off, nothing else. "Deeply sorry, we did our best to avoid this and we don't s…

The wording is to reassure investors. They don't care about the employees.

Then that's supposed to go onto a private email addressed directly to the investors.

If you want to announce layoffs, do so with humility and lots of goodwill to the people that helped build your company, especially when you're announcing on your website for public scrutiny.

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post #8

Wow this seems really poorly worded. On one hand, the CEO is upbeat about the future and yaks on about strategy and in the same breath says "you're fired". Seems very insensitive. Laying people off isn't the time for a pep talk and ra ra rally on the strategy. IMO if you have to lay people off then the focus should be the people being laid off, nothing else. "Deeply sorry, we did our best to avoid this and we don't s…

The wording is to reassure investors. They don't care about the employees.

How? Don’t the investors have the actual numbers?

Re: CEO Announcement to the Netlify Team

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46 people were affected.

Glassdoor reports Netlify as having 51-200 employees, so based on your 46 number this layoff affected anywhere between 23% and 90% of Netlify's employees. Pretty disturbing.

Closer to 300 according to LinkedIn.

Re: CEO Announcement to the Netlify Team

#17
> Focus on Enterprise Architects and Marketers

What does this mean? Netlify is focusing on enterprise architects?

I switched off their platform and onto Cloudflare pages. It’s honestly so much better. Netlify seemed to just… stop.

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The wording is to reassure investors. They don't care about the employees.

How? Don’t the investors have the actual numbers?

Some investors will look at numbers. Others will look at the persona. (See Tesla's technically unreasonable valuation)

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Then again, I can think of nothing more American than good people suffering under the poor decisions of bad people. That's like our entire history.

I would only disagree that such people are inherently bad. Rather, they are fulfilling the role that the dictates of capitalism requires of their given class.

All people are inherently good, however all people are inherently social beings. Since capitalism is dominated by humans' relations to capital instead of humans' relations to eachother, the social nature of the human species is repressed, and as such people cannot be their true selves under capitalism.

Capitalists would love nothing more than for you to believe that some of them are good and some of them are bad, which is the guiding narrative behind nearly all capitalist propaganda. In reality, they are humans just like ourselves and the system is to blame.

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Then again, I can think of nothing more American than good people suffering under the poor decisions of bad people. That's like our entire history.

This reads like a very narrow minded view of the world, even though it was in good spirit somehow.
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