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> Not laying off engineers is probably more about how hard it is to hire engineers today, and knowing that when they get past these problems, it'll be easier to
by jordanb 11y ago
> Not laying off engineers is probably more about how hard it is to hire engineers today, and knowing that when they get past these problems, it'll be easier to re-hire reps than re-hire engineers.
I don't think labor hoarding is a good theory for why they're keeping their product team. If they don't have work for them now and are winding down they would be getting rid of them.
Rather, I think they believe they don't have a product they can sell right now, but they believe they can change it to make it viable. You need engineers to change your product.
- w1ntermute 11y agoFrom what other articles have said, they've actually been doing a ton of paper shuffling on the backend using human labor (by hiring a ton of people with all that VC cash), which means that engineering has a lot of work to do if Zenefits is going to be profitable at scale in the long run.