Spotify will reduce total headcount by 17% across the company

Re:Spotify will reduce total headcount by 17% across the com... by alephnan on Monday December 04, 2023 @09:07AM (#38517364)

There was a meme about Spotify replacing the heart symbol to like a song with a ‘+’ sign.

No one asked for, it benefits no one, and people proactively want the old version.

I’m sure they had countless meetings for this “feature” and how much human hours. There would have been a designer, and a researcher. There would have also been a data scientist lying with statistics about how this change moved the core business metrics.

That’s from my personal experience of working in FANG and people doing unscientific and statistically invalid analysis of noise.

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Re:Spotify will reduce total headcount by 17% across the com... by CoastalCoder on Monday December 04, 2023 @10:58AM (#38518861)

This change reminds me of Netflix replacing their 5(?)-star rating system, with a simple thumbs up / down system.

Netflix claimed there was statistical justification for the change, but my most charitable interpretation is that their goals don't align with mine.

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