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MSFT acquisition of NPM was a massive shit show, they fired many staff engineers and people that were at github for quite a while. Top comment was a liar.
by shimman 5mo ago
MSFT acquisition of NPM was a massive shit show, they fired many staff engineers and people that were at github for quite a while. Top comment was a liar.
- tomnipotent 5mo ago> they fired many staff engineers Would you rather the company went under after it ran out of money and had to fire everyone instead? Not to mention a quarter of the company was laid off the year before the acquisition.
- shimman 5mo agoUhh, I'd expect the trillion dollar transnational corporation to do right by it's workers rather than rat fucking them to appease corporate do-nothing leeches if I'm being frank.
- luckman212 5mo ago> I'd expect the trillion dollar transnational corporation to do right you would? has any trillion dollar corporation ever?
- shimman 5mo agoNo, and that's why we must destroy them. Figuratively then literally.
- altmanaltman 5mo agoDestroy what exactly? And replace with what?
- Forgeties79 5mo agoCan y’all just state your opinions on these things rather than constantly asking bait-y questions?
- shimman 5mo agoEnemies of democracy don't want to do this because it would require acknowledge that technology companies in the US have been mostly a force of evil rather than good and the idea we should change that makes a small minority of people uncomfortable.
- Dr4kn 5mo agoWith smaller companies that can't yield global power. It would be better if cloud, office and OS would be separate. Then you wouldn't get shuffed OneDrive into the OS. It's also better for competition if the playing field is equal and one solution isn't the only one that can deeply integrate. Build APIs or don't do it.
- 7bit 5mo agoWas that the case? Can you provide sources to your claims and provide a foundation to your theories?
- tomnipotent 5mo agoIt's literally a Google search away. If you had the time to write this comment, you had more than enough time to do the search.
- 7bit 5mo agoNot my job to proof the wild claim that the layoffs were to save the company from bankruptcy .
- tomnipotent 5mo agoThe company raised $10M, did two rounds of layoffs totaling a quarter of the company, and was then acquired not long after. Early stage companies like that don't do layoffs unless it's to extend cash runway, but run wild with whatever unfounded fantasy you have about it all.
- jasonlotito 5mo agoGoogle said you are 100% wrong.
- tomnipotent 5mo agoRight, the very public two rounds of layoffs the company did right before being "acquired" had nothing to do with them running out of money.
- dust-jacket 5mo agohttps://www.theregister.com/software/2019/04/01/nice-people-matter-npm-may-stand-for-not-politely-managed-job-cuts-leave-staff-sore/1074471 https://www.theregister.com/software/2019/04/01/nice-people-... Year before the MSFT takeover. No idea about their actual financials but they were definitely shedding headcount pre 2020, including kicking people for trying to unionise.
- _pythonlover_ 5mo agoI was part of the npm team at GitHub. They laid off almost the entire team to focus on AI (CTO literally told us on the layoff announcement call that they're doing this to focus on Copilot)
- moi2388 5mo agoFortunately npm was a shitshow long before ai