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Tell that to Microsoft, Google and Amazon employees that were just laid off by the 10s of thousands.
by throwaway5959 4y ago
Tell that to Microsoft, Google and Amazon employees that were just laid off by the 10s of thousands.
- edgyquant 4y agoMost of them were not engineers
- ShadowBanThis01 4y agoPfff, right. That seems to be a popular lie told by companies.
- ghaff 4y agoIt's probably more like a popular lie told by engineers. Yes, layoffs have been in a mixture of roles as far as I can tell. But there's definitely this wishful thinking in some circles that it's just administrative and marketing people.
- ShadowBanThis01 4y agoIt could be. I was at a company that fired 1/4 of its employees, many of whom were engineers, and nobody has said a peep about it. As far as I know, there hasn't even been an internal broadcast E-mail explaining why a bunch of people just disappeared. On the one hand, I find that disrespectful on the part of management. On the other, it allows job-seekers to remain quiet about what happened. If I'm not asked directly if I'm still there, I don't talk about it.
- ghaff 4y agoThe attention that some tech layoffs are getting is often not the norm. It commonly just happens, no announcement is made, and employees know a bunch of people are gone but not much beyond that—aside from some individuals they know aren’t there any longer.