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Layoffs at big companies have nothing to do with individual impact. There might be exceptions, and with companies that are cash-strapped (or smaller companies

Layoffs at big companies have nothing to do with individual impact. There might be exceptions, and with companies that are cash-strapped (or smaller companies in general) the situation might be different. But for big companies, it's just a matter of the executives deciding that they don't want to invest in a specific org/project anymore ( or they want to offshore ) and if you're in one of the affected orgs/projects, you're out of luck. But presumably NYTimes doesn't employ that many people, and even fewer tech workers

robertlagrant 2y ago
> it's just a matter of the executives deciding that they don't want to invest in a specific org/project anymore ( or they want to offshore ) and if you're in one of the affected orgs/projects, you're out of luck This seems really simplistic. It's certainly happened before, but it seems ludicrous to just assume that executive whim is always the cause. Another reason is if a company is doing badly financially, something needs to change.
- SpicyLemonZest 2y ago
  It's not an either-or. When the company's doing badly financially and something needs to change, the mechanics of figuring out what needs to change involve a lot of executive judgment, which is not necessarily correlated with facts on the ground as the members of specific orgs or projects might see them.