Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

twitter.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

281–290 of 907 posts

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

#281

Post by dcchambers »

fullshark wrote: post #45
mathverse wrote: post #30

I am absolutely certain this is to suppress wages and employee rights. It is a coordinated effort across the industry and should be immediately investigated.

Was the pandemic hiring spree coordinated also? Just copycat behavior the whole way through imo.

The whole experience the last few years has taught me a valuable lesson about how simple and reactive all of these tech companies are. No one really knows what they are doing. Other than a very few special people, most of the leaders at these major tech companies are not super-geniuses. They are human like the rest of us and subject to all that it means... Irrational, over-reactive, subject to the whims of the stock market, etc...

I was a young kid during the dotcom bubble and in highschool during the '08 downturn so I wasn't really aware of the macroenomocic trends in the industry then, but now that I am older and deeply invested in the tech economy it's so obvious.

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

#282

Post by stefan_ »

napsec wrote: post #151
bink wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this GitHub acting independently or is it Microsoft informing them that they needed to lose 10% but they could do it on their own time frame?

Looking at the CEO's statement it seems the final layoffs aren't even finalized yet. > Unfortunately, this will include changes that will result in a reduction of GitHub’s workforce by up to 10% through the end of FY23. A number of Hubbers will receive notifications today, others will follow as we are re-aligning the business through the end of FY23.

Wonder what teenagers these days think of when you call someone a "hubber"

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

#284

Post by icambron »

can16358p wrote: post #105
roboben wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why don’t they use Huddle then?

I love Slack but Huddle is absolutely terrible. Extremely low audio quality with extreme latency (whereas I have superb quality and low latency on Meet and Zoom on same devices/connections).

I also get subpar audio latency from huddles. But I use it anyway because of how low-friction it is to start chatting with someone

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

#286

Post by [deleted] »

willcipriano wrote: post #234
it_citizen wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Genuine question. How would the mega rich benefit more from the recession than from a stable or high growth environment? Seems easier to capture a bigger piece of the pie when the pie is growing for everybody no and nobody complains? Not to mention the social and political unrest which might be triggered by a recession. Recent and old history has shown times and times again that it is when people go hungry or despera…

Wages lag growth, have a high growth environment for a few years and then cut off the faucet once people start demanding higher wages. It may not be a conspiracy but that is what's happening.

[deleted]

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

#287

Post by albrewer »

romellem wrote: post #101
mardifoufs wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>i) Effective immediately, we will be moving laptop refreshes from three years to four years. ii) We will be moving to Microsoft Teams for the sole purpose of video conferencing, saving significant cost and simplifying cross-company and customer conversations Layoffs and having to use teams? Talk about a morale hit

I'm not kidding, one of the reasons I left my last job was when our parent company forced Outlook, Sharepoint, and Teams on us (vs. Google mail, Google Drive, and Slack). That change on its own isn't the worst thing of course, there were other reasons why I was considering leaving, but it was definitely one of the last straws. Those MS solutions are just worse than the competition, and getting frustrated at your bugg…

> getting frustrated at your bugged technology because the parent company decides it can save some money

It doesn't even save money - the cost is just shifted from subscription expenses to lower dev team productivity. Management can't measure the latter as easily as the former, and arguing against switching is a much more complex argument to understand than "this number is bigger than that one".

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

#288

Post by grepfru_it »

harveywi wrote: post #241
fnordpiglet wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uh wtf I want to have something more useful to say to contribute meaningfully here. But my brain segfaulted.

They got angry when Trump was elected so they forked the Oval Office.

The office was not there during my onboarding in 2018

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

#289

Post by raydev »

ilyt wrote: post #252
notatoad wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

most of them haven't even stopped hiring. pay close attention to the layoff announcements to see which ones also announce a hiring freeze - most of them haven't. and i've heard of a few people getting offers from companies that have done mass layoffs in recent months.

I wouldn't be surprised if they layed off "bottom 10%" in hopes of replacing them with better when the market for IT workforce is cheaper..

Nope, it's mostly random.

Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

#290

Post by raydev »

bhaney wrote: post #150
bhouston wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not until there is a viable alternative. But with the integration of Github Co-Pilot, they can now make subscription fees from all of those users of VSCode.

Viable alternatives to VSCode have been around since the 90s

The explosive success of VSCode reveals that this is not true.
Post reply on HN