Wait, they have more than 500 tech roles? For a shitty office space leasing company?
1500 tech employees (out of 15000 total).
Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles
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Re: Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles
#82Earlier 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.
Really? You think optimizing office layout to maximize rental income is ”useless bullshit”?
Re: Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles
#83I 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…
FYI, may want to take a gander at "WeWork Role", whatever your options are didn't save and just lists 'option 1'.
Re: Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles
#84Why does wework even have tech roles?
Meetup.com is owned by WeWork. There could be substantial development there, although meetup.com's interface is still a confusing mix of new features that never get finished and old features that never quite go away.
Re: Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
- Kubernetes operation: 3 people - API on top of Kubernetes: 2 people - Tools around the API on top of Kubernetes: 1 person - API and tools specific for continuous integration: 2 people - Database operation: 2 people - Event/Data pipeline: 5 people - Authentication: 3 people - Mobile API: 2 people - Mobile App: 2 people - Web API: 4 people - Web App: 4 people - ETL/Data science: 5 people - Document writers, testers,…
Every feature requires 2 people to build the endpoints, 3 people to wire up the auth and 2 people to add it to the web app? And that's all they do going forward?
Pair programming!
Re: Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles
#86I 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 think this space is hotter than ever. Hard to keep juicing profits for Wall Street when you are increasing AWS spend 5% month over month. There are LOTS of companies spending a million a month or more on AWS.
Whoops, apparently I can't read.
That would be $52M per year. I would guess there are under 100 companies with that kind of AWS bill and probably closer to a couple dozen with that kind of spend.
Re: Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles
#87I 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…
FYI, may want to take a gander at "WeWork Role", whatever your options are didn't save and just lists 'option 1'.
Thx. Fixed.
Re: Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles
#88But I was told WeWork is a tech company. Repeatedly.
Just imagine what would have happened if WeWork added “blockchain” to their mission statement in late 2018.
Re: Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles
#89Literally last week I got an email from WeWork looking for a Senior Data Engineer with "High Comp". I never understand these companies, aggressively hiring before they lay everyone off
I think it will cause a lot of cognitive dissonance if you treat large companies like you'd treat a single person. Imagine there is one person in charge of everything; it would be super weird if they bring you in for an interview on the day they're firing everyone else. But that's not how these large companies work; one person made the hire someone and some other person that's never met the first person made the deci…
This ... it is incredibly easy to trap yourself into thinking large companies are even aware of everything they're doing in every little niche and nuance pocket of their operations. In many cases, there can be a growth area that had job requisitions approved for a high-growth investment in a small part of the company while the entire rest of the company experiences a massive layoff. This can occur both with central knowledge of the hiring in that small pocket of the company or without. Either way, the effect is the same and so is the reaction ... it just looks weird.
Re: Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles
#90I 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…
youre a good person.