Comment by pm90
9 hours ago
Almost 99% sure that They hired a consultant firm (MBB) that told them who to cut; this is pretty standard practice now at public tech corps. Especially if EMs weren’t in the loop. This looks like purely a margin improvement exercise thats hiding weaknesses in the company’s financial performance.
I’m sure they don’t know what they are doing or necessarily care, but I’m still curious what the consultants even claim to be looking at to make the list? Job description, git activity, team level profitability, salary, etc?
They probably claim all of it, but likely only job description.
"You have 20 guys that can code, so you can get rid of two of them".
EMs are never in the loop for layoffs for companies of this size, because the whole company would just get forewarning of the layoffs