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Re:Robinhood lays off 23% of staff by lmm on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @01:48AM (#32328082)
Name one company where you could be confident there's no risk of being laid off. Big companies definitely go through downturns and cut significant chunks of their staff, and you're even less likely to be able to do anything about it there than at a small company.
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Re:Robinhood lays off 23% of staff by avisser on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @02:30PM (#32335243)
> confident there's no risk of being laid off

Companies are ruthless, but that's a straw man. Risk is not all or nothing.

The company I work for is profitable. That fact alone lets me sleep at night.

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Re:Robinhood lays off 23% of staff by endtime on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @04:38AM (#32329147)
This isn't based on any insider knowledge, but I will be very surprised if my current employer, Roblox, has layoffs in the next couple years.
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Re:Robinhood lays off 23% of staff by slut on Thursday August 04, 2022 @04:09AM (#32340447)
Pretty sure they laid off at least recruiting and ops staff today
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Re:Robinhood lays off 23% of staff by endtime on Sunday August 07, 2022 @01:33AM (#32374145)
Why do you think that? I didn't hear anything about it.
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Re:Robinhood lays off 23% of staff by adrianN on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @04:57AM (#32329286)
Sufficiently big companies have a union and more financial buffer to weather downturns.
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