HackerOne lays off 12% of its workforce

Re:HackerOne lays off 12% of its workforce by jiveturkey on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @05:51PM (#36978152)

huh. no substantive comments yet. overreaction to “hackeronies”. i like cute names like that. it also rubs the salt in the wound during a layoff so i further enjoy the irony.

does this mean the pentest industry as a whole is in decline? or did h1 over invest and is having a hangover now? or are competitors starting to drink their milkshake? or is shift left working?

i do also wonder how this affects their downstream contractors. “flours” to be consistent with their employee naming scheme.

thanks

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Re:HackerOne lays off 12% of its workforce by dr_whom on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @07:15PM (#36979191)

HackerOne is primarily a bug bounty company which is different from pentest (they offer that too but it's not well established). This is probably in response to other companies not having as big of budgets for bug bounty which no doubt took a hit with all these layoffs over the last year.

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Re:HackerOne lays off 12% of its workforce by jiveturkey on Friday August 04, 2023 @04:34AM (#36997142)

thanks. indeed i was using the term pentest very loosely, too loosely.

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