Re:Tech companies are finally firing tech workers
by boringuser2 on Friday April 21, 2023 @04:53PM
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It seems pretty obvious that Elon Musk acted as ablative armor for tech company layoff criticism and stock devaluation and the confidence snowballed.
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Re:Tech companies are finally firing tech workers
by dajtxx on Friday April 21, 2023 @09:24PM
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I think so too. Elon laid waste to Twitter devs & SRE and that has allowed other companies to feel it's ok now.
But that's not the whole thing - it sounds like there was massive over-hiring of devs and some madness of trying to stop other companies getting them.
What a wasteland. The thing is there is a whole raft of interesting jobs out there that don't involve actively making society worse, so hopefully some devs will move out of this scene and onto something more constructive.
Re:Tech companies are finally firing tech workers
by late2part on Saturday April 22, 2023 @12:42AM
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Two thoughts:
1. Twitter works. The cuts are reasonable.
2. I worked with a number of people from (pre-Musk) Twitter. The self entitlement culture the majority of these pre-Musk Twitter people espoused was toxic.
Re:Tech companies are finally firing tech workers
by btreecat on Saturday April 22, 2023 @12:59AM
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Define "works?"
Re:Tech companies are finally firing tech workers
by suddenclarity on Saturday April 22, 2023 @03:11AM
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Site is up and it seems they've launched more features in the last year than the previous 15 years combined.
Re:Tech companies are finally firing tech workers
by boringuser2 on Saturday April 22, 2023 @02:01PM
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Ridiculous. It clearly functions as well as ever.
Re:Tech companies are finally firing tech workers
by btreecat on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @07:49AM
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Right... And the reports documenting increased down time, broken features and spam on the "for you" page are all a false flag operation by the liberal woke mafia to dunk on daddy Elon.
Re:Tech companies are finally firing tech workers
by white_dragon88 on Saturday April 22, 2023 @11:19PM
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You define it cause you seem to be quite confused about what that word should mean.
Re:Tech companies are finally firing tech workers
by btreecat on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @07:40AM
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That's not how making a claim in good faith works buddy.
Re:Tech companies are finally firing tech workers
by boringuser2 on Saturday April 22, 2023 @02:00PM
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Clearly so, but doesn't it kind of blow open some serious questions -- these companies have been over-hiring and importing direct competition from the third world to our labor, and now they say "lol jk, we didn't need that labor"?
Hmm....