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Ask HN: Who is firing?
- laddersthrow 9y agoThe Ladders. Customer service teams laid off recently, mass exodus since last year, various team leads and engineers laid off recently too. Money running out.
- beau 9y agoEveryone should be firing.
- haney 9y agoI read this post as more "what companies are winding down in a way that might indicate that their teams need new jobs", but I might have misunderstood OP's meaning.
- patmcguire 9y agoYeah, that's what I want to know. Where are a few people who work well together looking for work?
- hackermailman 9y agoWatching IBM still reporting forced retirement packages and layoffs https://www.facebook.com/alliancemember/?fref=ts https://www.facebook.com/alliancemember/?fref=ts Trip Chowdhry blames the Valley “junk IPO parade” for the 9,000+ bay area layoffs so far this year.
- gaius 9y agoI genuinely don't understand how IBM is able o recruit or retain either employees or clients at this point
- ehfoundtinder 9y agoeHarmony walked over 25 people out yesterday
- JSeymourATL 9y agoNerdWallet Lays Off 40 > http://www.pymnts.com/business/2017/nerdwallet-lays-off-40-tim-chen-layoffs-personal-finance-startup/ http://www.pymnts.com/business/2017/nerdwallet-lays-off-40-t...
- Fzzr 9y agoiXsystems laid off the majority of the team that worked on FreeNAS 10 (Corral) and cancelled the project last month, the same day the CTO resigned.
- Sammi 9y agoSeriously. What went wrong? FreeNAS 10 looked awesome. And on their blog they're boasting about growth: https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/ixsystems-sees-record-growth-2016-charges-2017/ https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/ixsystems-sees-record-growth-... EDIT: I see that they make a reddit ama to answer these questions: https://www.reddit.com/r/freenas/comments/65dmq7/hi_kris_brett_here_from_ixsystemsfreenas_project/ https://www.reddit.com/r/freenas/comments/65dmq7/hi_kris_bre... This one in particular was interesting: https://www.reddit.com/r/freenas/comments/65dmq7/hi_kris_brett_here_from_ixsystemsfreenas_project/dg9f4b1/ https://www.reddit.com/r/freenas/comments/65dmq7/hi_kris_bre...
- Fzzr 9y agoThere were lots of reasons why Corral failed, including poor choices of technology (MontageJS, p9fs), unfortunate engineering decisions (tons of unmaintainable wheel-reinvention, tons of backward-compatibility breakage), and poor planning (eg. documentation and localization ignored from the beginning, constant design changes). Jordan (departed CTO) would seem to have fallen on his sword and left, and the remaining executives (including returning CTO [and founder] Matt Olander) made the ruthless but understandable decision to cut their losses. They're re-focusing on the existing stable project with the intention of bringing in the the coolest features of Corral incrementally rather than all at once. Kris Moore has a solid record with PC-BSD/TrueOS and has been managing FreeNAS 9.x for some time. Only time will tell if FreeNAS 11 will live up to what 10 could have been. The growth refers to the enterprise version of the current (9.x) product line, which is legitimately growing. It's just that 2+ years of engineering effort on the successor was thrown out two weeks after that PR.
- ReligiousFlames 9y agoMatt and his team at iX rescued FreeNAS once, no doubt his leadership will prevail (with some blood and sweat).
- time_is_scary 9y agoGroupon just did a round of layoffs in engineering across the US offices
- zocoi 9y agoMostly in Chicago, a few in Bay area. They just let the remaining LivingSocial staff in Feb.
- dang 9y agoPlease don't add monthly tags to titles to make them look like official monthly threads. This one isn't and I don't think it should be. Most discussions are best as one-offs and there isn't enough substance here.
- existencebox 9y agoI'd disagree for the following: - It's useful when searching, - doesn't make me think "official" so much as "recurrent" (and I realize I may be missing the expected connotations, but I'm just speaking from my perception as a many-year-HNer), - and frankly, I DO think there is enough substance. It's a complement to the hiring threads that paint a more full picture on the state of our industry. Certainly no 300 post bonanzas like hiring, but I'd also add that large portions there are not necessarily substantive either.
- codelitt 9y agoI disagree as well. As the owner of a company who has had to lay people off in the past, I would love this thread to try to raise awareness of some talented people that are now on the market for new work.
- strictnein 9y agoThe "Who is hiring?" posts are official threads? I always just assumed they were organic in nature.
- dang 9y agoThey started out that way, but eventually we wrote software to post them. It's true the word 'official' is a bit heavy for HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9635551 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9635551 https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
- who_is_firing 9y agoMost discussions are best as one-offs and there isn't much substance in the Who's is Hiring threads either. Maybe the team should think of a small UI change to distinguish official threads from non official ones instead of restricting a community from entering certain helpful meta data on a free form text field.
- bdavisx 9y agoHas anyone ever used these threads to target existing workers at places that have just laid off? If not, I'd think about it if I was a hiring manager.
- preinheimer 9y agoI'm pretty sure you can buy the data from linkedin.
- komali2 9y agoErm... not really? For the pro account you don't get much other than the ability to message people whether they want to hear from you or not. Plus some more visibility into profiles, unlimited searching, etc. You don't get much more in terms of search fields. --I haven't used Linkedin as a recruiter since the new UI update, so this may be different now.
- Fzzr 9y agoI did once. Didn't work out, but it was worth a shot.
- segmondy 9y agoMost of the good engineers are usually long gone. Before these layoffs happen, things tend to grind to a halt or move at a glacier pace internally.
- who_is_firing 9y agoA startup, let's say company A, I used to work at did something very similar. I told the CEO that I knew another startup was shutting down, let's call it company B. Company A decided to something really smart: they organized an information session just for Company B engineers. I sent over the invite and 10+ engineers from Company B joined our after work event. We had free food and drink (important) and an overview of our company; our CEO asked our team to stay over afterwards to socialize and answer questions. They also had an open invite to any engineer to come onsite to interview the next week. We basically structured it like an on campus recruiting process. The event cost us maybe $300 and we ended up getting 4 of their engineers, all of whom who stayed for over 3 years. Company A actually had huge issues, but that was the smartest thing I saw them do while there.
- Harkins 9y agoEtsy: https://www.recode.net/2017/5/2/15522672/etsy-ceo-change-josh-silverman-chad-dickerson-layoffs https://www.recode.net/2017/5/2/15522672/etsy-ceo-change-jos...
- ReligiousFlames 9y agoNot firing, but there's high turnover at Beam/Suitable.
- who_is_firing 9y agoIt's sad that we are losing the monthly tag from dang. Also I tried making this a monthly thing but then one of my aliases got shadow banned. So we will probably have to organically submit each time.