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Can someone explain how Apollo makes money? GraphQL via Apollo is essentially my default API and yet I've never sent these guys a dime.
This company has been pretty dysfunctional since the Meteor days.
> Modern apps are built on the supergraph
Is there a reason why these big layoffs are done just before thanksgiving, Christmas etc?
I'm assuming to get it done before the end of the fiscal year.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-different-companies-different...
Is there a reason why these big layoffs are done just before thanksgiving, Christmas etc?
And as I was reading these comments, a news item popped up for me... https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-companies-do-layoffs-around...
> I am very sad to make this decision. It’s a consequence of the approach that Matt and I took in scaling the company over the last year, and we take full responsibility for the impact that will have on the lives of our departing team members. Why do CEO's always say this empty nonsense. If you accept responsibility, you accept consequences - what consequences is Geoff Schmidt going to be facing? Hurt feelings? Give…
The business they built is failing. The emotional toll is extreme. Founders I know are either in poor health due to stress, or place an outsized emphasis on staying healthy. You and others who post this every time seem to be saying "Ah yes, you're not suffering enough in my eyes". How much suffering is enough? Should your degree of blood thirst be applied to employee actions? Are blameless retrospectives a mistake an…
it’s clear they want people in charge to suffer, because some other powerful person hurt them in the past
sad. start up founder have a lot of benefits but it comes with pain.
pick your poison
I have no idea what Apollo Graph QL is, but it was interesting to search by URL and see the progression of related HN titles and their engagement. 2018 July. Apollo server 2 released woo! (mostly ignored) 2019 Feb. We switched away from Slack woo! . . . (Some PRs everybody ignored) 2019 June. We got a $22M investment woo! . . . (Many PRs everybody ignored) 2022 Dec. Oops, we are laying of lots of people...
For reference, according to their current team page, 246 employees (at least 246 publicly listed ones)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Employers are by dollar amount the biggest actual thieves by far in the US. Business owners ought to generally receive more scorn and critical evaluation than common property thieves who represent a thin fragment, if we really care about theft
Why don't you go start a business and become one of these rich employers you speak of? If taking such risks wasn't rewarded accordingly, then I don't think people would be nearly as eager to start a business.
https://calmatters.org/explainers/when-employers-steal-wages...
Can someone explain how Apollo makes money? GraphQL via Apollo is essentially my default API and yet I've never sent these guys a dime.
Why are software companies still grappling with the mythical man month? You'd think by now we'd have learned our lesson. More hands /= more productivity, at least on a linear scale
Too many business schools teach classes that claim that managers don't need to know the business that they're in. They just need to know the math. Then apply what comes out of "organizational psychology/sociology" courses to the remaining staff. And when a new CxO takes over, he brings in his cronies who puffed him up at the last place (aka "the new broom sweeps clean"). This is why software companies end up with mis…
I have my own distaste of "MBA Culture" but one thing I would not say is that they teach people to ignore the business and not learn it. From what I've learned, is completely orthogonal to what they teach you in any regionally accredited business school what you are asserting here.