If you are affected by the layoffs in Los Angeles, working in software engineering (esp. on ERP and internal tools), UI/UX, or supply chain — my company, Lumi is hiring https://www.lumi.com/jobs
Do you also hire offshore/remote devs?
SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce
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Re: SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce
#242If you are affected by the layoffs in Los Angeles, working in software engineering (esp. on ERP and internal tools), UI/UX, or supply chain — my company, Lumi is hiring https://www.lumi.com/jobs
Do you also hire offshore/remote devs?
Yes we hire remote, in fact dev is distributed but primarily in the US.
Re: SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce
#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's less cruel? Face to face meetings? Layoffs suck, how is this particularly egregious?
1. Prepare the e-mails in advance for each employee that 2. Schedule the "Town Hall" meeting for an important announcement at 4pm on Friday 3. Start the meeting by talking about the company, vision, challenges, recent wins, etc. [Insert a positive announcement here] 4. Tell everyone at 4:20pm that the company will be laying off 10% of the workforce, explain why, etc. 5. At 4:25pm, as you prepare to wrap up the town h…
Turn this into a SaaS.
Re: SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce
#244If you are affected by the layoffs in Los Angeles, working in software engineering (esp. on ERP and internal tools), UI/UX, or supply chain — my company, Lumi is hiring https://www.lumi.com/jobs
Pretty impressive. You guys are like Zendesk for shipping.
Re: SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce
#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
When we establish a Mars colony it will probably take centuries before it's truly self-sufficient. I don't see the point of starting with a self sufficient colony on Earth, especially if the challenges are quite different from Mars.
Take Mars, I am heading to Mercury.
What would you do when you got there? Thought it was sort of inhabitable for humans with such temperature swings.
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First we need a self-sufficient Antarctic colony. Any takers?
The Antarctic is actually heavily protected by treaties preventing colonisation and exploitation of resources. This all goes up for grabs when the treaties expire in a few decades and it's presently an environmental issue to try and get them resigned rather than have an oil rush there.
Yes. Will be keeping an eye for the polar ice war over Antarctica
Re: SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce
#24710% is a big fraction. How often do large, stable companies execute a layoff like that? Sometimes layoffs can be not so bad, for example when that's the company's way of clearing off the managers' firing wishlist without incurring legal trouble. However at 10% of the workforce, this may be a change of direction away from R&D and towards sitting on the falcon 9 and launching to LEO.
In my experience, the larger the company the less painful it is to fire 10%.
In large engineering organisations, laying off 10% makes no difference at all on anything apart from the ego of managers whose teams shrink.
On the topic, wasn't Jack Welsh/GE that popularised the idea of firing the bottom 10% every single year? Not saying that this is necessarily a good idea but that shows the amount of slack in large organisations.
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#249How many more 10% layoffs until they’re down to just 1 employee?
Re: SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce
#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
First we need a self-sufficient Antarctic colony. Any takers?
When we establish a Mars colony it will probably take centuries before it's truly self-sufficient. I don't see the point of starting with a self sufficient colony on Earth, especially if the challenges are quite different from Mars.
Well, those challenges are fairly trivial in comparison, so it'd probably be good training.