Timeline for answer to Practical effects of the October 2023 layoff by Mad Scientist
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| Oct 19, 2023 at 21:23 | comment | added | Zoe - Save the data dump | Actually though, I completely forgot/missed that the previous round said "58, or about 10%". Assuming exactly 10% for convenience, and no new hires since, gives 580 employees, yielding 580 * 0.9 * 0.28 = ~146 (which is well within the +-30% of the initial estimate, FWIW) employees that now suddenly have to look for a new job. There's still an error here, though, but significantly less than +-30% | |
| Oct 19, 2023 at 6:27 | comment | added | Zoe - Save the data dump | @Max No, because that would tell you how many employees are left, not how many were fired (which was the question at hand) | |
| Oct 19, 2023 at 0:56 | comment | added | Max | @Zoeisonstrike re your math, I believe that last factor should be 1-0.28=0.72, right? | |
| Oct 17, 2023 at 7:28 | comment | added | Proud anti-zionist | @This_is_NOT_a_forum He just repeats what’s written on the presentation. | |
| Oct 17, 2023 at 5:11 | comment | added | This_is_NOT_a_forum | @TylerH: Not much worse than the CEO (at 02 min 57 secs) | |
| Oct 16, 2023 at 18:23 | comment | added | TylerH | @user10186832 "coding help forum" yikes | |
| Oct 16, 2023 at 18:20 | comment | added | MT1 | The Verge - theverge.com/2023/10/16/23919004/… | |
| Oct 16, 2023 at 18:11 | comment | added | Philippe StaffMod | Pretty much, yeah. But there were hard hits in other areas as well. Our product teams suffered a hit proportional to the size of the product org. Lots of different areas are feeling it. But yes, sales felt it the most this time. | |
| Oct 16, 2023 at 18:09 | comment | added | Mad Scientist | @Philippe "go-to-market operation" is Teams sales, right? | |
| Oct 16, 2023 at 18:09 | comment | added | Philippe StaffMod | In his blog post, Prashanth explained that todays round focused largely on our go-to-market operation. They took a hard hit, but every single team in the company was impacted. | |
| Oct 16, 2023 at 17:49 | comment | added | Slate StaffMod | @TylerH Good question to ask in its own answer. | |
| Oct 16, 2023 at 17:45 | comment | added | Zoe - Save the data dump | There were over 500 employees before the first layoff (ctrl-f 500). 500 * 0.9 * 0.28 = 126 people fired is a very rough estimate. Probably worth adding a +-20-30% on that number (but probably on the higher end rather than the lower end) | |
| Oct 16, 2023 at 17:41 | history | edited | Bryan Krause | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 16, 2023 at 17:41 | comment | added | TylerH | And what does 28% mean in absolute numbers? They don't publish their Team page anymore, sadly, so it's hard to know if 28% is 28 people or 280 people or somewhere in between. | |
| Oct 16, 2023 at 17:39 | history | answered | Mad Scientist | CC BY-SA 4.0 |