Comment by shimman
1 month ago
MSFT acquisition of NPM was a massive shit show, they fired many staff engineers and people that were at github for quite a while. Top comment was a liar.
1 month ago
MSFT acquisition of NPM was a massive shit show, they fired many staff engineers and people that were at github for quite a while. Top comment was a liar.
I was part of the npm team at GitHub. They laid off almost the entire team to focus on AI (CTO literally told us on the layoff announcement call that they're doing this to focus on Copilot)
Fortunately npm was a shitshow long before ai
> they fired many staff engineers
Would you rather the company went under after it ran out of money and had to fire everyone instead? Not to mention a quarter of the company was laid off the year before the acquisition.
Was that the case? Can you provide sources to your claims and provide a foundation to your theories?
https://www.theregister.com/software/2019/04/01/nice-people-...
Year before the MSFT takeover. No idea about their actual financials but they were definitely shedding headcount pre 2020, including kicking people for trying to unionise.
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It's literally a Google search away. If you had the time to write this comment, you had more than enough time to do the search.
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Uhh, I'd expect the trillion dollar transnational corporation to do right by it's workers rather than rat fucking them to appease corporate do-nothing leeches if I'm being frank.
> I'd expect the trillion dollar transnational corporation to do right
you would? has any trillion dollar corporation ever?
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