Re:Etsy has ousted its CEO and is laying off 8 percent of it...
by throwaway61891 on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @08:27PM
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> By the way, all this time you're developing open source you're not helping the company so let's stop that, it costs us developer time and money.
that was not my experience at all. officially, open source was encouraged because it raised etsy's stock in the tech community, which was beneficial for hiring.
unofficially, middle managers discouraged it because it detracted from shipping quickly (which made them look good to upper management).
obviously the CTO/etc. could've just been paying the engineers lip service about open source, but they seemed to genuinely support and encourage open source contributions. they certainly celebrated when open source contributions actually happened.
Re:Etsy has ousted its CEO and is laying off 8 percent of it...
by a3camero on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @08:59PM
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The (former) CEO seemed like a tech guy at heart and I think he was the CTO before being promoted. I met him a couple times at hackathons around 2009 and he was definitely not a suit guy. I doubt it was just lip service.
It's not unfeasible.
It would be a scenario that could explain both portfolio degradation and community leave, and not too uncommon. Of course, it could be unrelated and this is just speculation.