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Their Github org seems to have gone from 45 to 37 members. Not sure what that means, do they only have 37 devs? https://github.com/orgs/soundcloud/people https
by phreeza 9y ago
Their Github org seems to have gone from 45 to 37 members. Not sure what that means, do they only have 37 devs?
https://github.com/orgs/soundcloud/people https://github.com/orgs/soundcloud/people
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Lo9slfH-9XcJ:https://github.com/soundcloud+&cd=1&hl=de&ct=clnk&gl=de https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Lo9slf...
edit: now it's at 35... ouch
- beckler 9y agothose are just the people who publically show they're part of that org.
- brazillianboy2 9y agoyeah. You have to chose to be publicly visible as part of an org. I can assure you they have more than 35 devs.
- tw352852 9y agoIt was never more than 100 at a time tho. With these layoffs, I'm guessing it's hovering around 60
- lukashed 9y agoI wonder why they decided to remove them from GitHub already [1] when they were given a 90 days notice [2]. [1] https://twitter.com/pje_txt/status/882983954059595776 https://twitter.com/pje_txt/status/882983954059595776 [2] https://twitter.com/pje_txt/status/882981765064871937 https://twitter.com/pje_txt/status/882981765064871937
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- tqkxzugoaupvwqr 9y agoMaybe to limit the damage notified (and thus possibly upset) employees can cause.
- lukashed 9y agoThat must've been an interesting calculation. Now they're paying dozens of employees that literally aren't able to work three months worth of salary.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- baddox 9y agoSeverance is pretty common, and some companies will just keep you technically employed (and thus paid, and even given health insurance) with no expectation of you doing work or coming into the office. Three months is definitely on the generous side, but not that unusual from what I've seen and heard.
- pm90 9y agoYep. Severance is pretty common when employees are "laid off" i.e. their employment is terminated not because of employees fault. And generally, you are informed of it, and your credentials and such are revoked almost immediately. Quite different from when you voluntarily leave, when you give notice and do knowledge transfer and such. I imagine that is because the employee is unlikely to do anything bad, since they likely have a better future.
- praneshp 9y agoThey're going to place work second anyway (to finding a new job). It's usually to give them a severance, not screw folks on a visa, etc.
- juliantejera 9y agoSpot on. You never know who might have taken the news in a bad way and decides to lash out.
- praneshp 9y agoOften times (in the US) the 90 days notice doesn't mean anything badge/credentials wise. You are walked out that evening (sometimes supervised) and your credentials are revoked asap.
- rb808 9y agoWARN layoffs in NY require 90 days protection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraining_Notification_Act#New_York_State https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...
- krisdol 9y agoThe default settings for my org were private membership and I hadn't realized it until later on. There may be more developers who just are private
- mattbillenstein 9y agoThey are very thin in engineering as is my understanding.
- brazillianboy 9y agopeople have to choose to display publicly that they are part of a github org. I can assure you they have more than 35 devs.
- bm1362 9y agoI heard it was disabled during/before an all hands this morning.