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Re: Hire a former SoundClouder

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Post by expertentipp »

bogomipz wrote: post #98
expertentipp wrote: post #45

The Swedes are firing! That's about it regarding Scandinavian social security, working culture, and other bollocks they are trying to sell.

I don't understand your comment, can you explain?

In which locations they fired at first and the most? HINT: In Sweden and Germany there are work councils, unions, it's difficult to fire and an employee cannot be treated so easily as a disposable asset.

Re: Hire a former SoundClouder

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Post by expertentipp »

bitL wrote: post #90

I am pretty sure all ex-soundclouders are going to be super happy when low-ball offers start coming to them. They should consider their next job a temporary one and immediately start searching for another, better one... EDIT: for downvoters, you probably never worked for Berlin startups, right?

To get a job in Berlin one has to answer itself an important and fundamental question "what's the lowest salary you can accept?" (it gets lower as one becomes more desperate so it's worth to play ontime, the rent will not become any cheaper, and the monthly health insurance contributions - oh boy).

Re: Hire a former SoundClouder

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Post by raverbashing »

falinebambi wrote: post #86
emeraldd wrote: post #54

Two questions ... 1. This is a somewhat odd spreadsheet to find semi-randomly posted to HN. Can anyone speak to its provenance? 2. Is something, not so public, going on at Sound Cloud or is this just normal turn over for a company of there size?

Hey there, this spreadsheet was made by SoundCloud employees of the Berlin office who are now looking for work. We are just helping to share it and hoped the HN community could help. Any companies hiring please post - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JDx5acZPvdmmSeMyEr77...

But didn't most redundancies happen outside of Berlin, with offices being closed?

Or these are most technical redundancies (in Berlin)

Re: Hire a former SoundClouder

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Post by _gfrc »

rdslw wrote: post #104

BTW what are notice periods for Berlin and London based SoundClouders? For SF it's 2 weeks I assume?

Based on the contracts I've seen in Germany the notice period is usually around 3-6 months, though the mandatory periods are a lot shorter (~4 weeks if you have been with the company for at least 6 months, up to 7 months if you have been with the company for a long time). IANAL and I don't know the SoundCloud contracts.

Re: Hire a former SoundClouder

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Post by steeve »

Can you add Zenly please?

We work with Go, Go Mobile, C++, gRPC, Maps, UE4/Unity/Vulkan, distributed systems, low level systems development, Spark, iOS, Android.

We're located in Paris, France.

Reach out to me directly at steeve at zen dot ly.

Re: Hire a former SoundClouder

#108

Post by richardknop »

bogomipz wrote: post #92
richardknop wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One concern with that would be that good engineers would usually see this on the horizon and leave for better / more prospective jobs in advance. So those who stayed until mass layoffs might not be the top talent that used to work at the company before when it was doing better. I am not sure it applies in this case as this was quite sudden and we don't have enough visibility to see how many red flags were there few m…

There are actual a host of real life circumstances such as family, babies, health etc. that might prevent or make it difficult for someone to conduct a preemptive job search or job change.

Yes I think this is actually a big factor I had not thought about.

People with families, children, mortgages etc might be more prone to staying and hoping for the ship to be righted rather than preemptively moving.

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