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How are you investing a lot more if you let people go?
by atomical 11y ago
How are you investing a lot more if you let people go?
- jusben1369 11y agoThe article says they mostly fired sales people.
- atomical 11y agoSo they are hiring other people? That doesn't address my question.
- nstj 11y ago> He confirmed to TechCrunch that 18 people were laid off, mostly in sales. From the original article
- atomical 11y agoSo they are hiring other people? That doesn't address my question.
- scurvy 11y agoWhich is odd. Sales people don't cost much. They either pay for themselves or they're let go quickly. They're not usually let go in a group like that. Usually engineers are cut early; they cost more. Not trying to pick a fight, I've just been through layoffs before and this is how the finance team always justifies their cuts.
- todd3834 11y agoIf things are going bad, the engineers become assets for a potential aquisition. I've never seen engineers let go when things get dicey. Almost everyone else is let go first.
- scurvy 11y agoThat's probably a sign of frothy (dare I say bubble?) times. The opposite is usually the case. Cut the engineers and outsource the work was the M.O. for a decade+.