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Twilio's Developer Evangelist Michelle Glauser is being let go in layoff today
- omni 4y agoOne month of severance for almost four years of employment? That's pathetic, even outside of tech. Definitely affecting my perception of Twilio as a company.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoOne week for each year of service is pretty standard unless you’re getting packaged out for exceptional circumstances (physical office closing/moving, etc).
- omni 4y agoThis is anecdata but two high profile tech layoffs you've read about on here in the last few years gave out more like 2 months per year served, on the low end.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoThis is an outlier, and while commendable (I’d love to hear who it was, positive signal about who to work for wrt to respect and treatment of workers), it isn’t industry standard by any means. Great if you can get it, but don’t expect it.
- threads2 4y agoOff-topic but ESL person here, why "anecdata" and not "anecdotal"?
- panda88888 4y agoIt’s anecdotal + data
- Kon-Peki 4y agoFor the benefit of ESL, it is a portmanteau of anecdotal and data. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau
- Gortal278 4y agoI can't find anything about Twilio's layoffs. Was OP fired? Or did the company laying off people?
- booi 4y agoDidn't see anything about this yet but might take a bit of time to get a more official announcement. For what it's worth, I don't see it on here https://layoffs.fyi/ https://layoffs.fyi/
- soggyboi420 4y agoI believe she was pushed out and calling it “layoff” to save face. No indication that any other person was or will be laid off from Twilio
- robovac 4y ago
- assttoasstmgr 4y agoMaybe Twilio leadership realized they didn't need a pronoun czar on the payroll? (See her pinned tweet.) It's unclear to me what her exact role or title is. What does a "developer evangelist" do? I read through her frantic 30 tweet thread and I cannot figure out what she does or why this is on HN. It's a stream-of-consciousness of marginalization acronym alphabet soup. It's sad but people lose their jobs everyday not to mention all the people that lost their jobs - some irreparably - during COVID lockdowns whilst much of tech could WFH. This person is not special. I did detect a lot of disbelief and she seems like a nice person so I hope she gets the help she needs.
- presentation 4y agoBasically engineering as marketing—advise other companies’ engineers to use your company’s products/teach people how to use your company’s tech products/talk at conferences and make demos of your company’s product in action.
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- trentthethief 4y ago