Twilio is firing 17% of workforce

Re:Twilio is firing 17% of workforce by pm90 on Monday February 13, 2023 @08:41PM (#34783977)

IMO BigTech had the notion that for the most part you wouldn’t be laid off unless you “underperformed”. The fact that people with long tenures and good perf were still let go definitely has an impact on how these companies will be perceived by future employees.

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Re:Twilio is firing 17% of workforce by qwerpy on Monday February 13, 2023 @11:39PM (#34785377)

That sounds reasonable but will it change anything? Pretty much every major tech company did layoffs, and they're all going to keep paying same relative to each other. I'm a guy who wants a big paycheck, so I'll still be working for FAANGs.

Sure, now I know my job isn't 100% secure and maybe I'm less inclined to go above and beyond, but I'm sure they'll address that by having bigger "differentiation" in pay between top and average performers.

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Re:Twilio is firing 17% of workforce by lucideer on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @06:43AM (#34788048)

> IMO BigTech had the notion that for the most part

I'm not sure this is "for the most part"

Sure, FAANG may have had this notion (or at least FNG; not sure if the As ever had), along with the sort of religious/dogmatic "drinking the koolaid" type culture they were trying to instill within their employee-base (helped to no end by outsourcing large portions of their sales operations so they'd have a smaller core to "spoil").

Thinking of BigTech more broadly though, & especially big old enterprise-y tech like the IBMs, Oracles, SAPs & telcos, layoffs being arbitrary & indiscriminate seems like nothing new.

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