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Re:Bolt announces layoffs by kleinsch on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @04:46PM (#31510309)
I was in the middle of an interview loop with Bolt mid-Apr, they canceled my onsite so they could (supposedly) prioritize onboarding people they'd already hired. Dodged a bullet there. Also did calls with Coinbase, Uber, and Twitter, who all now have hiring freezes.

Boggles my mind how companies flip on a dime between "hire as fast as possible" and "the sky is falling, we're laying people off." In the case of Bolt and Twitter, there were material changes (lawsuit from major customer, Elon Musk) but the others are just scared about the economy.

Re:Bolt announces layoffs by dvtrn on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @04:58PM (#31510456)
Conversely: "Slow to hire, fast to fire" is something I've heard a few times in my career, and usually within organizations that turned out to be truly toxic and absolutely burnout inducing places to work.

Operating on either extreme probably makes for captivating blog posts and "leadership reading material" but in praxis seems like it should be self-evidently a bad idea.

Re:Bolt announces layoffs by wordnerd2022 on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @07:19PM (#31512147)
Uber does not have a hiring freeze
Re:Bolt announces layoffs by pbreit on Thursday May 26, 2022 @12:14AM (#31514444)
Re:Bolt announces layoffs by wordnerd2022 on Thursday June 02, 2022 @09:47PM (#31603247)
Headlines are sometimes wrong :)
Re:Bolt announces layoffs by dehrmann on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:23PM (#31514073)
In theory, Elon Musk maybe buying Twitter shouldn't change any of its management decisions yet.