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ThrowawayH4MCb
7y ago
There are. The people laid off didn't significantly contribute to that work, however.
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ThrowawayH4MCb
7y ago
Bringing drugs to market requires a lot of money. And the whole process takes a long time (order of a decade). Subsidizing the tests or doing more marketing would sell more tests, but wouldn't speed up drug development. And doing so wo
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ThrowawayH4MCb
7y ago
A bunch of engineering directors were brought in from external sources a few years back, and that really changed the atmosphere. Before then, we seemed to try to hire smart engineers and give them independence to solve problems. Those new d
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ThrowawayH4MCb
7y ago
Current, unaffected employee here. Throwaway for obvious reasons. A big chunk of the layoff is the new lab that we built in Phoenix. That only made economic sense in the scenario where we were selling far more kits than we succeeded in sell