Also twitch. Yuck…
Probably some great devs on the market for anyone hiring though.
Comment on Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees
Zoidberg@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Unity, Google, Discord. All within a day or two of each other.
For every number of employees laid off, a VP level employee must be fired. Those employees didn’t hire themselves. Someone came up with the idea.
If companies don’t do this they’re not attacking the root of the problem.
neclimdul@lemmy.world 8 months ago
pologreem@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, no
All devs must go through at least a year of unemployment according to these mofos
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 8 months ago
For every number of employees laid off, a VP level employee must be fired.
You’re expecting Morlocks to feast on each other, instead of feasting on the Eloy.
Hyperlon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Year end business review
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Bold of you to think that the VP level employees don’t get big raises in exchange for laying empoyees off.
Copernican@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think it’s an unfair and naive assumption to think VPs all keep their jobs. I’ve seen some pretty nasty game of thrones plays by executive leadership during layoffs due to consolidation of teams and remits. Someone might get a bonus that doesn’t deserve it, but someone is going to get let go at a high level (albeit with a generous severance not offered to the rest of the employees.)
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I guess I’m jaded because I’ve seen far too many times where it’s the worker bees, the people who actually put the work in and get things done, getting the sharp end of the stick. I would be surprised if the 17% of employees Discord laid off actually included VPs.
Copernican@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I hear you. You are going to see a lot more worker bees than VPs laid off in part because there’s a lot more worker bees than VPs.
per sfgate.com/…/discord-layoffs-citron-overhiring-ga…
The notice, required when companies perform mass layoffs, said the employees would officially leave Discord on Feb. 2. Dozens of engineers are among the casualties, as are several trust and safety employees, product managers and data scientists, according to the notice.
Depending on how the structure is laid out and what product areas were cut, I’m guessing up to the director level would be impacted.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
They coordinate to create a glut and push all their wages down. Computer touching wagies and so socially stunted they’ll never form effective union. If they did, they would jusy defect out of greed.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The industry is so niche, the technology is so heavily customized, and the people so idiosyncratic that I think forming a union shouldn’t be that hard. The real dampener is that the pay for these jobs is always far above the median. Five years of experience and you’re reaching towards six figures. Ten years and you’re well over the line. And in Silicon Valley, the sky is the limit. A master’s or phd in your field means you’re looking at $200k, $300k, $400k…
If there’s a big drop in wages (and considering the real estate prices in the neighborhoods where these businesses exist) something’s got to give. Maybe you get unions. Maybe you just get a bunch of businesses collapsing on themselves Twitter-style and forcing people back into the “indie company-in-my-garage” model. Maybe everyone becomes contractors.
But this isn’t sustainable in any serious sense.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I work in aerospace, we got unions back in the 70s and never let them go. For what the job actually is, it pays pretty good.