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Growth rarely lasts forever, and Snap had more employees than generally considered reasonable with such a single-purpose app. I'm surprised they aren't laying o
by Mononokay 9y ago
Growth rarely lasts forever, and Snap had more employees than generally considered reasonable with such a single-purpose app. I'm surprised they aren't laying off more engineers though, personally.
- jlebrech 9y agothey still need them to make a ui change that users might actually like.
- icefo 9y agoI think Snapchat and users have opposite views on what the UI should be: Snapchat want to show the maximum of sponsored contents to the users (BTW it took me a week to stop swiping right by reflex after the update) and users just want to send pics to theirs friends. I know that my usage of Snapchat is anecdotal. If anyone has data on the percentage of users that voluntary look at sponsored content, I'm interested.
- parliament32 9y ago>Snapchat want to show the maximum of sponsored content Yet, with this latest update, they removed the stories/sponsored mixture and banished sponsored content to its own screen. Once you get over the habit of swiping right, you never have to open that screen again... if anything, they reduced the amount of sponsored content I see.
- icefo 9y agoBut now you see ads between stories. I don't remember if they introduced that with the update or before.
- danappelxx 9y agoWell, at least they were kind enough to completely split up the sponsored content (right screen) from user content (left screen). With the update I entirely stopped viewing sponsored content, aside from the occasional ad when viewing stories. An interesting side effect is half of the ui is entirely useless now, which leads to a strange ux, but still better than interleaving everything (ie facebook, instagram, twitter, etc.).
- addicted 9y agoI think they already had a round of layoffs focused on engineers.
- Mononokay 9y agoIt says in the article they did, yeah. Still a bizarre amount left in my opinion. I can't imagine what they do all day.
- williamscales 9y agoImplement new filters?
- ccccccccccccc 9y agoAgreed. Comparing Snap to other companies with similar # of employees, it really shows how bloated the company is especially since there is only _so_ much you can work on with a single purpose app. I wonder if their decentralized office tactic helped lead to this?