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A company like yelp making 1 billion revenue per year, I'd except they could have their employees back, for at least a couple months, maybe furlough them with 80% of their salaries...
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The first person who gets laid off is going to immediately call The New York Times, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, etc. with probably-incorrect information about the layoffs. So PR wants to be out ahead of that. The real world doesn't have atomic transactions, so you have to pick between that scenario and one where some people are worried about their job for a few hours.
> The first person who gets laid off is going to immediately call The New York Times, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, etc Why do people do this? What do they get out of it? They don't pay for tip-offs do they? Seems unethical anyway.
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Yelp is accused of predatory practices on business owners including pushing them to sign up for a paid subscription to hide negative reviews on their Yelp page. Otherwise, you are vulnerable to their algorithm which hides/shows reviews that are often less than favorable. Yelp reviews are now overtaking business' own pages on Google searches leaving businesses with less option to control, let alone, curate their brand…
Is there any evidence of this actually happening?
Off topic: Can anyone explain why the dow jones is going up? The dow was LOWER Jan 1st 2019. I feel we are worse off than Jan 1st 2019.
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There are numerous accounts of businesses receiving calls from Yelp salespeople essentially telling them to buy an ad package or the negative reviews get prioritized. I agree that no one is entitled to positive promotion, but to argue that a massive platform that's established itself as the go-to place for consumer business reviews absolutely should be held to fair promotion. I can't believe that this an argument on…
> There are numerous accounts of businesses receiving calls from Yelp salespeople essentially telling them to buy an ad package or the negative reviews get prioritized. Sure, there are numerous accounts (read:hearsay) but there's zero physical or hard evidence. After all this press, don't you think there'd be at least one recorded phone conversation or email that showed up in the numerous lawsuits' discovery processe…
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I wondered this before joining a large tech company. As it turns out, a lot of engineering is done on experimentation to optimize the product. Only a small portion of users might see the experiment, and many don't succeed. An example might be complying with food and alcohol law in a single region, which you would never see unless you lived there. Another example might be a complete experimentally gated refactor that…
>Another aspect is your changes often have to be approved by a lot of people, which is not the case on small projects. So you need more engineers because you hired more middle managers? That's a little absurd in my opinion but I am likely wrong in this assumption. It just seems like the reaction to "We have lots of approvals" should be figuring out how to reduce the amount of approvals needed, not hiring more enginee…
And you can cycle through this a few times. And yes, people will also cycle through "we need to reduce bottlenecks" and such, but at this point, you've been successful, you've got a bunch of money coming in, and pissing off your clients is something to be avoided, since individual efficiency is not the end goal by itself.
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Yup. I don't like Yelp, but in this situation the choice isn't between layoffs and no layoffs, it's between layoffs and bankruptcy. And in bankruptcy you'd see massive layoffs anyway. There's not really even a choice here.
The choice is to build an emergency fund, just like you would do for yourself, so you can pay your rent, your bills if an accident in your life happens. Yet, financial crashes happens quite regurlarly but companies expect the gouvernment (citizens) to pay the rescue bill. And I'm not going to cry for the execs taking a 20-30% pay cut.
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> There are numerous accounts of businesses receiving calls from Yelp salespeople essentially telling them to buy an ad package or the negative reviews get prioritized. Sure, there are numerous accounts (read:hearsay) but there's zero physical or hard evidence. After all this press, don't you think there'd be at least one recorded phone conversation or email that showed up in the numerous lawsuits' discovery processe…
Louis Rossmann disagrees - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hhL15yJUnI
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> There are numerous accounts of businesses receiving calls from Yelp salespeople essentially telling them to buy an ad package or the negative reviews get prioritized. Sure, there are numerous accounts (read:hearsay) but there's zero physical or hard evidence. After all this press, don't you think there'd be at least one recorded phone conversation or email that showed up in the numerous lawsuits' discovery processe…
Louis Rossmann disagrees - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hhL15yJUnI
- A Yelp account exec inappropriately shared another business's profile stats with Louis.
- Louis reported this privacy violation to Yelp, and Yelp decided to fire the account exec.
- The fired account exec blamed Louis for getting fired and subsequently got her friends to write negative reviews on Louis's Yelp page.
That's not evidence that Yelp practices extortion.
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Louis Rossmann disagrees - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hhL15yJUnI
To summarize: - A Yelp account exec inappropriately shared another business's profile stats with Louis. - Louis reported this privacy violation to Yelp, and Yelp decided to fire the account exec. - The fired account exec blamed Louis for getting fired and subsequently got her friends to write negative reviews on Louis's Yelp page. That's not evidence that Yelp practices extortion.