“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”

Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by joshuamorton on Friday April 30, 2021 @11:29PM (#27002790)

Worth adding that the eng team has an even higher rate of departures. Cross-referencing basecamp.com/humans.txt with the list of people who left shows that nearly 2/3 of the Engineering team left, bring them from 15 to 6 (including DHH).

That can't bode well for the company.

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by phendrenad2 on Saturday May 01, 2021 @06:04AM (#27004942)

Then again, maybe we'll see the reverse of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law and they'll be 5 sprints ahead.

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