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Ask HN: Who is Firing?
- alex- 10y agoA few states including California have the WARN act [1]. The latest layoffs reported can be found here: http://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/warn/WARN-Report-for-7-1-2016-to-02-25-2017.pdf http://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/warn/WARN-Report-for... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraining_Notification_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...
- voltagex_ 10y agoWow, parsing that from all states that have it could be interesting.
- flukus 10y agoEarly heads up on an imminent recession maybe?
- gpresot 10y agoMore likely it would be a lagging indicator, rather than a leading one. Companies will close plants and offices with same delay on the onset of a recession (itself defined formally as two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth).
- matt_s 10y agoYou're really only going to see large publicly traded companies reporting that way, and by that measure all those numbers are small in comparison to the size of those companies. Sucks for people getting the boot but I wouldn't think there is any indicator there. Those types of companies lay off people every year.
- taneq 10y agoIt'd be very interesting to see it animated on a map.
- sokoloff 10y agoAFAIK, the WARN Act is a federal law, meaning it should apply in all states.
- testtesttest 10y agoLots of big tech companies. AT&T - 102 - San Ramon Atmel Corporation - 45 - San Jose Atmel Corporation - 14 - San Jose Atmel Corporation - 9 - San Jose Broadcom - 64 - San Diego Broadcom and Avago - 771 - Irvine Broadcom and Avago - 435 - Santa Clara Broadcom and Avago - 48 - San Jose Cisco Systems, Inc. - 899 - San Jose Cisco Systems, Inc. - 42 - San Jose Cisco Systems, Inc. - 25 - San Jose DreamWorks Animation and - 226 - Glendale DreamWorks Animation and - 170 - Glendale Ericsson Inc. - 435 - San Jose FireEye, Inc. - 80 - Milpitas GoPro, Inc. - 138 - San Mateo Google - 104 - Mountain View Google Inc. - 94 - Mountain View Hewlett Packard Enterprise - 258 - Palo Alto Hewlett Packard Enterprise - 208 - Sunnyvale Hewlett Packard Enterprise - 143 - Citrus Heights Intel Corporation - 84 - Santa Clara Intel Corporation - 54 - Santa Clara Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. - 139 - Santa Clara Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. - 20 - Aliso Viejo Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. - 12 - Folsom Motorola Mobility LLC - 58 - Sunnyvale Motorola Mobility LLC - 9 - Santa Clara Oracle America, Inc. - 441 - Santa Clara Ricoh Electronics, Inc. - 147 - Tustin Seagate US LLC - 70 Sony Computer Entertainment America - 40 - San Diego Symantec Corporation - 84 - Mountain View Symantec Corporation - 77 Symantec Corporation - 23 - Mountain View Symantec Corporation - 3 - Mountain View Synaptics Incorporated - 77 - San Jose Twitter, Inc. - 67 - San Francisco Western Digital Technologies, Inc. - 59 - Milpitas Xerox Business Services - 19 - Irvine Xerox Business Services, LLC - 11 - Irvine Also Verizon, VISA and others...
- jamesby 10y agoKeen.io secretly laid off a large amount of staff recently across-the-board. They provided severance in exchange for fresh confidentiality agreements. Here are some examples of the various people and departments affected by the lay-off and all let-go simultaneously: Director, People Operations & Facilities VP Engineering Sales Tech Writing and Dev Engagement
- dang 10y agoWe deleted the URLs you put in there to people's personal LinkedIn pages. That's way over the line. Please don't do that here.
- shivaodin 10y agoAkamai is firing a decent batch of people.
- lurkeyloo 10y agoDo you know what offices and/or positions?
- eb0la 10y agoTelefonica (10th telco globally) is firing people in the wholesale/global solutions areas. Not just in Spain, also in the US, Brazil, Argentina, etc...
- salesguy222 10y agoThe layoffs continue at Oracle, specifically in Hardware ("converged infrastructure" too), as our HW revenue has shrunk from 5b per year in 2010 to 1.7b roughly this year. Margin had dropped drastically as well, from 1.9b in profit to -45m (!) in the same time period. All data taken from our public SEC filings. While this doesn't truly affect Oracle and its stock that much, our overall revenue continues to shrink globally. As such there have been thousands of people who have been laid off in the past two years, some silently, some in the WARN act. Countless others have seen their roles relocated to India and Romania, which helps the company save on salaries, benefits, and commissions. By lowering cost of sales by hundreds of millions USD, the company has maintained its margin of roughly 30% per year. But the layoffs will continue, and if the "Enterprise Hardware amd Software" market ever truly does ship out to the cloud, it probably won't be Oracle that is there to service those customers. : many of my friends are Indian and Romanian and I am very glad they have decent jobs in their countries. I do not share the xenophobic sentiments of many of those who resent those countries that are receiving jobs from laid off roles in the US
- userulluipeste 10y agoI also have friends working at Oracle in Romania, and I confirm what you're saying. They are in the "who is hiring" category there.
- salesguy222 10y agoGreat, thank you! I'm glad to hear it. I'd say in the last 3-4 years, the number of Romanian employees has grown from 1-2k to 5-7k. Of course I could provide official numbers, but Oracle sues its own employees on a daily basis :)
- bruceb 10y agoHow is one being xenophobic if they are not happy their job is going overseas?
- salesguy222 10y agoI apologize for the very late delay on this response. Of course someone should be unhappy that their CEO and Board of Directors has made a decision to lay them off in the USA explicitly because of salary costs, instead of performance or some important cause. The reality is that this is the right of a private company- all you can do is attempt to navigate the deeply illogical and political system that we call the private sector. Deciding that you should hate someone you've never met, because of their skin color, national origin, etc, because you think that THEY PERSONALLY took your job, is not logical or enjoyable in my opinion. One should always blame the company, an artificial and greedy machine, not a fellow human, which is an organism driven by self preservation no matter the country of origin
- ksec 10y agoOk, I thought there is a different between layoff and Firing. Now seems everyone using it Interchangeably.
- mod 10y agoI guess in the context of this thread, it will all be layoffs.
- mattkrause 10y agoFiring is usually "for cause": you, specifically, did something wrong or aren't performing well. Layoffs are usually more related to business conditions: the company is losing money and needs fewer employees, or is pivoting in a different direction and no longer needs certain types of employees. All that said, it's called "Who's Firing" because it's pithier and matches the "Who's Hiring" threads; these comments are all probably layoff-related.
- crestedtazo 10y agoWhat is the point of threads like this? Is the OP trying to be witty or humorous? I don't believe these threads contribute to any discussions on this website. They are deliberately created as a joke.
- dvdcxn 10y agoThey are presumably useful to anyone actively in the job market, as a company firing staff is a red flag for any prospective employee
- atsaloli 10y agoA colleague of mine got laid off from VMWare.