Re:Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
by bdcravens on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:26PM
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I'm saying that large companies in tech tend to have a large developer headcount, often working on projects outside of the core business. As such, I think those employees are more expendable.
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Re:Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
by lhorie on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:16PM
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Teams that open source stuff typically have leveraging roles, i.e. they build things that several other teams depend on.
Orthogonally, typically large companies have a maslow hierarchy of sorts: for every infrastructural endeavor, there may be a number of others that are more "nice-to-have" niche projects that aren't really critical to anyone else's ability to deliver results.
The most vulnerable employees are those on niche projects, despite these projects being internally focused (as opposed to open sourced). Infra folks whose work may be open source are typically less vulnerable because they do in fact work on critical, well, infrastructure.