Re:Snap is laying off 100 employees mostly in advertising an...
by Kilonzus on Thursday March 29, 2018 @05:07PM
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Out of curiosity, how does a company lay off ~220 employees yet still have many open positions on its website? I looked at the jobs section for snap and it seems like they have a plethora of engineering jobs despite laying off 120 engineers. Why?
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Re:Snap is laying off 100 employees mostly in advertising an...
by dragonwriter on Thursday March 29, 2018 @05:10PM
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> Out of curiosity, how does a company lay off ~220 employees yet still have many open positions on its website?
Quite easily if they are different roles, or if they are trying to fill but with less experienced candidates at lower pay (you could do a pay cut, but the morale impacts of that make it more practical to do a layoff and hire.)
> I looked at the jobs section for snap and it seems like they have a plethora of engineering jobs despite laying off 120 engineers.
Engineers aren't completely interchangeable, and management views them as less adaptable than they are.
Re:Snap is laying off 100 employees mostly in advertising an...
by mywittyname on Thursday March 29, 2018 @06:10PM
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They could be cutting under-performers, replacing engineers skilled in Talent A with Talent B where Talent B isn't necessarily easy to learn, or consolidating offices.
I'm seeing all of the above at my current place.