Earlier quoted context omitted.
He’s a great podcaster.
He's really gone downhill lately. Looking really rough. And stoned on top of that. I wonder if he can even comprehend half of what his guests are saying.
Na he is still great
Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
991–1000 of 1001 posts
Re: Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
#992Geesh, glad they're trying to save the company by firing people. Lord knows they wouldn't survive otherwise. They gotta tighten their belts in this profit drought!
I mean, uh, actually they're just trying to save money by competing with their workforce instead of making their products better, am I getting that right?
Re: Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
#993I didn’t know they have that many people (9000) to work for a single product. I’ve been a subscriber for more than 5 years and the app on the iPhone just gets worse everyday. Why? - daily updates is gone. This is where I can get a snapshot of all new releases from artists I love. I’m not sure if Release Calendar is the new one but I don’t bother to check. - I listen to classical and the song title naming is just subp…
It's called "maximizing profit" "for the shareholders" by "saving money".
They consider their workforce a liability and expense instead of an investment and necessary for quality and competitiveness.
They're just cutting into their workforce to impress investors to bilk more money out of them.
It's a sick philosophy for short-term gain that will ultimately destroy the company.
Re: Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
#994I didn’t know they have that many people (9000) to work for a single product. I’ve been a subscriber for more than 5 years and the app on the iPhone just gets worse everyday. Why? - daily updates is gone. This is where I can get a snapshot of all new releases from artists I love. I’m not sure if Release Calendar is the new one but I don’t bother to check. - I listen to classical and the song title naming is just subp…
It's hundreds of "microservices". That's why they created Backstage.
You just need that many people if you are going to go that route. Unfortunately for them, once the economy goes from "stupid good" to "very good", it all starts falling apart.
It's unchecked complexity that at some point is going to destroy you.
And it can literally destroy them.
"From Unicorns to Zombies: Tech Start-Ups Run Out of Time and Money"
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/technology/tech-startups-...
Re: Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
#995Earlier quoted context omitted.
People are better off in absolute terms, yes. That is incontrovertible. What matters to the human psyche is relative well-being compared to one's peers. And by those measures, the 'middle class' is demonstrably worse off than 50 years ago.
> People are better off in absolute terms, yes. That is incontrovertible. That people are better off now than 15–20 years ago (see OP) is absolutely not obvious. > What matters to the human psyche is relative well-being compared to one's peers. Uh, see the Neoliberal shift that happened some decades ago. Things got worse. The rich got richer and the rest got poorer. This isn’t some psyche thing for crying in the sink…
We're on the same side of the argument.
Re: Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
#996I didn’t know they have that many people (9000) to work for a single product. I’ve been a subscriber for more than 5 years and the app on the iPhone just gets worse everyday. Why? - daily updates is gone. This is where I can get a snapshot of all new releases from artists I love. I’m not sure if Release Calendar is the new one but I don’t bother to check. - I listen to classical and the song title naming is just subp…
I think that beyond some relatively small number, engineering headcount functions as a demonstration of wealth - it doesn't actually make the product better, it doesn't make you ship faster (Brooks's law). but it makes you look big and important and justifies your market cap
Exactly. VCs want to see growth by watching double the engineering headcount on every subsequent visit. It's ALL about optics and burning money for show. But the party is ending.
I have seen it first-hand - company opening a new floor to show growth, but it was half-empty.
They are laying off people this week.
Re: Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
#997Earlier quoted context omitted.
FYI, you can contact Apple technical support pretty easily. I have been able to talk to a real person quickly a few times over the years. https://support.apple.com/contact
Does any other brand have something similar to Apple's support? I was kinda surprised to see that you could get called back as easily as I did. Or that their stores could quickly fix e.g. a bricked bootloader. The Windows/Android devices I had before had nothing like that.
I don't know, but it's definitely keeping me on board. I don't even call generally, I just text.
Re: Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
#998Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is that different than the IMF pumping cash in 1998 into the Russia economy, only so that private companies take the profits and create oligarchs and various lords, who then emigrated to the French Riviera with women who became widows there, empoverishing the Russian land even further, as shows by the economist Joseph Stieglitz in his book Globalization and its Discontents?
Presumably it’s different because the point of the cash was to support people whose livelihoods were disrupted by the pandemic?
Are you talking about the economic crisis of 1998 in Russia or about the pandemic? Both were emergencies with lives at stake.
Re: Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
#999I wish CEOs would resign when layoffs happen. It should be like some governments where the whole cabinet resigns. If layoffs are a necessity, then the CEO and the top management should show the example and take responsibility for taking the company into the wrong direction, leading to layoffs. That would be fair and more understable than a "thank you for your hard work and commitment".
Jack Welch school of business made students for eternity. The first to pay will always be the employees.
Re: Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
#1000Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me it’s the forcing of Podcasts down my throat that I hate. No Spotify, I do not want to listen to Joe Rogan and other right wing podcasts. Just let me hide Podcasts already :-(
I may be in the minority here but I still enjoy the Joe Rogan Experience. As an avid listener the past 12 years I can tell you he is not "right wing" in any way. He was a liberal and believes the left "left him behind" when progressivism hijacked the democratic party. Most intellectually honest humans agree with him.
I stand corrected :-)
Seems I unfairly bundled him in with online 'Right Wing' movement.
He does have a certain reputation though in some quarters :-)