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If 20 employees are ~28% then Gitpod has must have had only around 70 people staff. That is very different to the FAANG layoffs, where big tech has tens of tho

If 20 employees are ~28% then Gitpod has must have had only around 70 people staff. That is very different to the FAANG layoffs, where big tech has tens of thousands of employees where we know that a lot of those jobs were probably some BS jobs with little real impact on the company. If you're a small business with 70 people then it's probably fair to assume that every single person had more work on their plate than time on their hands and there is also probably a lot of internal knowledge going lost now. I think Google, Microsoft, Spotify, etc. are just laying off because they use it as a good opportunity to get rid of some nasty pandemic fat, but the Gitpod layoffs are probably more indicative of real financial struggles and viability.

binarymax 4y ago
Calling people who were gainfully employed “nasty pandemic fat” is a new low.
- dustedcodes 4y ago
  The mass layoffs are despicable, and it wouldn't fly in Europe, but if you employ 100k people then I think it is fair to say that there is probably a lot of BS jobs floating around where people do nothing but sit in useless meetings all day. I mean some of them have documented it openly on TikTok. Just watch any of the "A day as X at company Y" videos and you'll see all some people do is brunch, drink matcha lattes and then sit in some relaxation pod.
  - Shounak 4y ago
    Those TikTok videos are usually produced or at least approved by the marketing and recruiting arms of those companies, and don't usually match employees' real day to day experience
  - marcosdumay 4y ago
    > I think it is fair to say that there is probably a lot of BS jobs floating around where people do nothing but sit in useless meetings all day Yes, it's fair to say those people exist. It's not fair to claim to know their quantity, that management knows who they are, or that it's always their fault they don't create anything.

binarymax 4y ago

Calling people who were gainfully employed “nasty pandemic fat” is a new low.

dustedcodes 4y ago
The mass layoffs are despicable, and it wouldn't fly in Europe, but if you employ 100k people then I think it is fair to say that there is probably a lot of BS jobs floating around where people do nothing but sit in useless meetings all day. I mean some of them have documented it openly on TikTok. Just watch any of the "A day as X at company Y" videos and you'll see all some people do is brunch, drink matcha lattes and then sit in some relaxation pod.
- Shounak 4y ago
  Those TikTok videos are usually produced or at least approved by the marketing and recruiting arms of those companies, and don't usually match employees' real day to day experience
- marcosdumay 4y ago
  > I think it is fair to say that there is probably a lot of BS jobs floating around where people do nothing but sit in useless meetings all day Yes, it's fair to say those people exist. It's not fair to claim to know their quantity, that management knows who they are, or that it's always their fault they don't create anything.