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Re:Spotify lays off 200 employees, or about 2% of its workforce by blululu on Monday June 05, 2023 @10:06AM (#36196350)
The UI mangler is probably a “high performer” who is great at slideware engineering. This is their second round of layoffs and I would suggest not kicking the folks who are down today.
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Re:Spotify lays off 200 employees, or about 2% of its workforce by paddw on Monday June 05, 2023 @10:13AM (#36196442)
"Slideware engineering" is an excellent phrase which I plan to keep. Thank you.
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Re:Spotify lays off 200 employees, or about 2% of its workforce by Am4TIfIsER0ppos on Monday June 05, 2023 @02:20PM (#36200645)
Can I have an explanation because I don't understand the joke?
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Re:Spotify lays off 200 employees, or about 2% of its workforce by Mindwipe on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:52AM (#36198127)
Given they backslid on the feed given how badly it went down, and given they had sold the feed to artists (literally, giving them better promotion in exchange for lower royalties was defacto selling advertising space on the screens of "ad free users) which they will now have to unpick probably at a material effect on cost projections, I suspect the product management team are probably not considered high performers at present.
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