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As the large majority (if not all) of this year layoffs in tech companies, engineering is barely affected. > ”The Ottawa-based company will cut jobs in all its
by soneca 4y ago
As the large majority (if not all) of this year layoffs in tech companies, engineering is barely affected.
> ”The Ottawa-based company will cut jobs in all its divisions, though most of the layoffs will occur in recruiting, support and sales units, said Mr. Lütke.”
- spamizbad 4y agoLots of rescinded offers and hiring freezes though. Seems like they’re hoping for some natural shrinking to avoid pricey severances.
- boringg 4y agoedit: Re-read the thread somehow missed that it was specific to engineering. Comment makes sense - engineering typically last to go for obvious reasons. I'll counter though that I don't think its about pricey severances but more related to keep core products operating and being built for the future. Lutke comes from software engineering.
- soneca 4y agoIt made sense to me. I was and their reply was talking about engineering jobs. I said that all these layoffs are not firing many, if any, software engineers. They replied that, while that’s true, tech companies are not firing software engineers, they are on a hiring freeze and canceled offers that were out. So not firing, but not hiring any either.
- TulliusCicero 4y agoA hiring freeze for any one company generally means slowly bleeding in that area: people are still leaving, you're just not getting anyone new to replace them. But if basically every company is doing a hiring freeze, and employees are unable or unwilling to quit because of bad economic conditions, maybe less so.