Patreon Lays off 17% of Staff

Re:Patreon Lays off 17% of Staff by unity1001 on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @02:06PM (#32828061)

I agree. Tech companies should never really break off with former employees. Any former employee is a future potential employee that you can re-recruit when the time comes. Also, talent is difficult to find. Which makes people the center. Whatever you build, you will build it with people. So you need people. Be them new employees, be them former employees.

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Re:Patreon Lays off 17% of Staff by cafed00d on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @02:42PM (#32828532)

> Any former employee is a future potential employee that you can re-recruit when the time comes

Not only that, all former employees are de-facto "background check references" / "evagenlists" / "detractors" of your company. Forever! (well, not exactly forever... but close enough)

I can't recall a single year over the last 10 years where younger engineers, cousins, nephews or friends have asked me about the 2 companies I worked at before.

And boy, have I been candid.

Talked a very good friend of mine from joining Amazon for an offer he got making nearly 3 times much I did. All because of "decency" (or lack thereof) of a company.

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Re:Patreon Lays off 17% of Staff by smm11 on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @04:33PM (#32829845)

Seems Amazon needs to be careful about this, too.

https://retailwire.com/discussion/there-might-soon-be-no-one...

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Re:Patreon Lays off 17% of Staff by chihuahua on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @08:53PM (#32831996)

Amazon has really developed "not giving a shit" into an art form. They even still have the cliff vesting of RSUs, which is their way of telling new hires "we don't expect you to stay for more than 2 years"

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Re:Patreon Lays off 17% of Staff by treis on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:37PM (#32829224)

>friends have asked me

Is this supposed to be haven't?

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Re:Patreon Lays off 17% of Staff by cafed00d on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @06:18PM (#32830891)

Whoops! Yes, you're right. Thanks! Wish I could edit it now.

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Re:Patreon Lays off 17% of Staff by water-your-self on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @06:43PM (#32831129)

Would love to hear your take on Amazon.

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Re:Patreon Lays off 17% of Staff by ChrisMarshallNY on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @02:43PM (#32828541)

Even more importantly, they are evangelists for other future employees.

I actually went out of my way to make it easy for my employees to quit. If they didn't want to stay, then I sincerely wished them well.

The company limited what I could do, but I did my best, and it seemed to work out.

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