Ask HN: Does employment feel safer at smaller companies?

Re:Ask HN: Does employment feel safer at smaller companies? by dave4420 on Friday January 12, 2024 @03:14PM (#38973351)

I used to work for a non tech company of around three or four hundred people that nonetheless had about twenty software engineers. I say “used to” because engineering got cut by 80% last quarter.

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Re:Ask HN: Does employment feel safer at smaller companies? by scripper on Friday January 12, 2024 @04:09PM (#38974117)

Were the engineering cuts were due to pullback in the primary business?

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Re:Ask HN: Does employment feel safer at smaller companies? by dave4420 on Friday January 12, 2024 @05:03PM (#38974745)

The established part of the business had an appalling half year and couldn’t continue to fund the not-yet-profitable digital part of the business.

If you work for a startup you know there’s always a possibility that the money will run out, but at least you know your runway.

What does “pullback” mean?

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Re:Ask HN: Does employment feel safer at smaller companies? by scripper on Friday January 12, 2024 @05:38PM (#38975137)

Thanks. I meant “a pullback,” as in a euphemism for underperformance. The question was whether the engineers were incidental casualties.

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