I feel for the people who were layed off, esp. ones who just left their previous jobs and/or relocated. One thing as an employer I would never do (if it were my

I feel for the people who were layed off, esp. ones who just left their previous jobs and/or relocated. One thing as an employer I would never do (if it were my call) was to lay off somebody who just recently joined/relocated [unless there are already performance problems]. That's just a shitty thing to do, at a human level. Putting that aside (since all tech companies will lay off new joiners), I don't think this story points to any (cultural) problems at Klarna. Layoffs are always tough and people will be unhappy. Based on the timelines presented in the article, everybody knew within 1-2 days whether they are affected or not, and affected people got a good severance package. By "good" I mean more than Klarna had to pay based on the law, based on the article. It's important to remember that 99% of working people in the world would not get this deal in a layoff. I think we (tech workers) need to stop expecting to always be treated as unicorn snowflakes (esp. in the current market conditions).