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Re: Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

youeseh wrote: post #15

Say you own a co-working space. You probably should have some way to let: - People book conference rooms. - Let people check in and check out. - Let people book hot desks. - Manage access for members, hot desks, event participants etc. - Lots of other stuff. At some point, the off the shelf software is no good, especially if you're looking to... build a single experience around the world for lots and lots of office b…

Probably need 20 engineers to do that...

And another 480 to change the UI in annoying and unnecessary ways every three days.

Re: Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles

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Post by unreal37 »

softwaredoug wrote: post #12

There IS a market for a WeWork like service. A WeWork-like model has appeal to someone like me that would love good coffee and an office/hoteling space! Especially as I travel a lot and sometimes want a reliable private workspace in an arbitrary city. Coffee shops frankly don’t cut it for working/meeting with people all day. Also there’s often a need for meeting spaces in arbitrary cities. my company would have used…

>> my company would have used an airBNB style conference room scheduling solution half a dozen times last year.

These exist. They exist all over the world. Regus being one.

Re: Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles

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Post by hourislate »

softwaredoug wrote: post #12

There IS a market for a WeWork like service. A WeWork-like model has appeal to someone like me that would love good coffee and an office/hoteling space! Especially as I travel a lot and sometimes want a reliable private workspace in an arbitrary city. Coffee shops frankly don’t cut it for working/meeting with people all day. Also there’s often a need for meeting spaces in arbitrary cities. my company would have used…

Can't most hotels provide a conference room and other services?

Re: Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles

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Post by asfarley »

cfors wrote: post #68
cagenut wrote: post #29

I kinda wish there was a job for like, DevOps Hatchet Men. I don't want to lay people off, but after they're laid off I feel like I could probably delete about a million dollars a year worth of their AWS bill right now and they'd never even notice the stuff missing.

I would never recommend it, but the thought has crossed my mind (definitely more than once) that the scream test could work wonders with cloud infrastructure [0]. [0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/anitag/2012/06/07/i-scream-... edit: I suppose Chaos Monkey could be purposed for this task in hindsight.

That article took a horrifying left-turn when she started talking about using the scream-test for your test suite itself.

A test is not 'proven unnecessary' if you temporarily disable it, and show that a bug does not arise to fill it up!

Re: Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles

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Post by aswanson »

unreal37 wrote: post #69
youeseh wrote: post #15

Say you own a co-working space. You probably should have some way to let: - People book conference rooms. - Let people check in and check out. - Let people book hot desks. - Manage access for members, hot desks, event participants etc. - Lots of other stuff. At some point, the off the shelf software is no good, especially if you're looking to... build a single experience around the world for lots and lots of office b…

WeWork had apps to optimize the space in their office layout for maximum efficiency. They had one of the lowest sqft per paying member in the business. They also were into custom spaces. They needed software to design the office floor plans for big customers like MixPanel. Lots of software. Not just booking rooms and events.

apps to optimize the space in their office layout for maximum efficiency

That sound like some useless bullshit if I've ever heard it.

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Post by cwyers »

youeseh wrote: post #15

Say you own a co-working space. You probably should have some way to let: - People book conference rooms. - Let people check in and check out. - Let people book hot desks. - Manage access for members, hot desks, event participants etc. - Lots of other stuff. At some point, the off the shelf software is no good, especially if you're looking to... build a single experience around the world for lots and lots of office b…

I'm struggling to think what of that couldn't be done with off the shelf software, honestly. Hell, most of it could be done with Outlook and Active Directory.

Re: Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles

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Post by kunle »

I saw folks do this for Buzzfeed layoffs and Uber layoffs a while back, and I think it was helpful (context here : https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-uber-employee-has-created...)

If you're affected by the WeWork layoffs and looking for a new role, fill this out: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdx4TOVN7AdgvyAZGbq...

If you're interested in recruiting ex-WeWork folks, you can look them up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14CAtBsn3ZTL59tNMVbew...

Re: Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles

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Post by Merrill »

cagenut wrote: post #29

I kinda wish there was a job for like, DevOps Hatchet Men. I don't want to lay people off, but after they're laid off I feel like I could probably delete about a million dollars a year worth of their AWS bill right now and they'd never even notice the stuff missing.

I sort of did that for a while. The differences between what management thinks they have, what is actually running, what data centers are charging back, what licenses are being invoiced, what finance is depreciating, and what is actually needed for operations can be astonishingly large.

Re: Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles

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Post by ygjb »

aswanson wrote: post #75
unreal37 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WeWork had apps to optimize the space in their office layout for maximum efficiency. They had one of the lowest sqft per paying member in the business. They also were into custom spaces. They needed software to design the office floor plans for big customers like MixPanel. Lots of software. Not just booking rooms and events.

apps to optimize the space in their office layout for maximum efficiency That sound like some useless bullshit if I've ever heard it.

So does most software until you try doing stuff the hard way.
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