Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead
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Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead
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Re: Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead
#2Beginning of the third paragraph:
> This means we’re eliminating about 530 roles globally, which represents around 11% of Rioters, with the biggest impact to teams outside of core development.
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#3A seemingly common theme through all these layoffs is that engineers are less impacted than other orgs.
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#4fairly generous severance terms
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#6A seemingly common theme through all these layoffs is that engineers are less impacted than other orgs.
In general, the more direct the impact of your role on short-term revenue, the safer you are when your company starts sacrificing people to the gods of quarterly accounts.
Ancillary service workers always get hit badly, but good salespersons are often safer than good engineers.
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#7> This isn’t to appease shareholders or to hit a quarterly earnings number—it’s a necessity.
I smell BS
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#8A seemingly common theme through all these layoffs is that engineers are less impacted than other orgs.
This is true with all layoffs. If you can't explain your direct role in creating your product/service, you're going to be higher on the chopping block.
Sales, marketing, HR, admins, PMs, etc. are usually the first to go because they don't "keep the lights on" and it's hard to measure their impact.
While it's true that it's also hard to measure a single engineer's impact, it's scarier to fire someone who may be expensive to replace and who may take institutional knowledge of the inner workings of the product with them.
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#9Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39097245
Closely related, but not a duplicate. This post explicitly calls out services and products that will continue to be supported, like world's, musical collaborations like KDA, the Arcane anime, and upcoming Project L.
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#10These severance packages seem pretty reasonable, and they aren't trying to BS too much. I guess this is the best way you can do this thing.