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Snap is laying off 100 employees mostly in advertising and sales

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Re: Snap is laying off 100 employees mostly in advertising and sales

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Out of curiosity, how does a company lay off ~220 employees yet still have many open positions on its website? I looked at the jobs section for snap and it seems like they have a plethora of engineering jobs despite laying off 120 engineers. Why?

They could be cutting under-performers, replacing engineers skilled in Talent A with Talent B where Talent B isn't necessarily easy to learn, or consolidating offices.

I'm seeing all of the above at my current place.

Re: Snap is laying off 100 employees mostly in advertising and sales

#32

Out of curiosity, how does a company lay off ~220 employees yet still have many open positions on its website? I looked at the jobs section for snap and it seems like they have a plethora of engineering jobs despite laying off 120 engineers. Why?

They could be cutting under-performers, replacing engineers skilled in Talent A with Talent B where Talent B isn't necessarily easy to learn, or consolidating offices. I'm seeing all of the above at my current place.

Echoing maywittyname's response +.

they replacing Talent A with Talent A but lower pay scale.

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