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> Not sure I follow this distinction. When you see it, you'll know it. > Who are all the people companies like Meta, Alphabet, Amazon are firing? A lot of th
by 908B64B197 4y ago
> Not sure I follow this distinction.
When you see it, you'll know it.
> Who are all the people companies like Meta, Alphabet, Amazon are firing?
A lot of them were in "tech-adjacent" positions. PM, tech recruiters or evangelists, community managers, DEI folks... At one point one layoff announcement had "returning to a healthy ratio of engineers to non-engineers" as a goal.
> Are you talking about civil engineers?
No. Software engineers.
- weatherlite 4y ago> A lot of them were in "tech-adjacent" positions. Do you have more info on that? Of course a lot of tech adjacent were let go but R&D was cut back as well as far as I can tell.
- 908B64B197 4y agoKeep in mind big tech companies do layoffs every year for poor performers. [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-24/tech-layoffs-are-hitting-diversity-and-inclusion-jobs-hard https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-24/tech-layo... [1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3690309/about-those-tech-layoff-headlines-most-companies-arent-firing-it-workers.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/3690309/about-those-te... [2] https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-03-07-do-recent-layoffs-mean-the-tech-talent-crunch-is-over https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-03-0... [3] https://techreport.com/news/3493451/microsoft-layoffs-ethics-and-society-team-fired/ https://techreport.com/news/3493451/microsoft-layoffs-ethics...