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Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
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Re: Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
#202I dislike the title because it doesn't clearly state it's a layoff. "Building for the future" gave me the impression that it's about some major new initiative with a roadmap outlining plans.
It's interesting how every time there's a layoff, the blog post always has a title like "Preparing for what's next" or "An update on our workforce" or "Getting ready for the agentic era"!
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#203Prince is claiming they laid off very few SWEs, I know at least an entire team of SWEs. https://x.com/eastdakota/status/2052560831909433554?s=20
Doubt. The eng teams I know lost 15-25% of their SWEs.
Re: Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
#204Welp, looks like I’m affected. If anyone is looking to hire a systems engineer with distributed systems and load balancing experience, shoot me an email at @piperswe.me :/ I’ll update this with a resume link tonight…
CV link: https://piperswe.me/cv.pdf
pretty minor since the rest are fine but your linkedin link is broken
Re: Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
#205The message to every Cloudflare employee is clear: you'll be there for the company when times are hard. But the company will not be there for you when times are hard. It does not matter if the way we work has changed, or AI adoption has increased, or aliens show up. This is a demonstrated lack of loyalty that would result in immediate termination of the situation were reversed. The important take away for everyone el…
This is literally every public company you just described. Companies do not have loyalty to their employees.
Re: Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Their internal AI use is exploding, which is a signal that they need to structure for that, and so they’re laying people off as one of the first steps towards actioning that signal. I don't see anywhere where the jump from "structuring for AI" directly leads to "laying people off", unless "structuring for AI" means there is less work for people to do, do you?
I think it means - we're spending more money on AI thus we don't have as much to spend on people
This will surely end well
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#209Saving Cost for the Future.
Re: Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
#210Shameless title.