[yardie]

It's not just restricted to startups. I know a few stories of F500s who hired people then fired them days or weeks later. In one case one guy never made it to his desk.

I don't think HR was given any heads up. I imagine management wanted to keep everything business as usual until the last moment.

[giarc]

Atleast with F500s you could imagine that it's simply an issue of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. With startups of this size, you imagine that people doing the hiring are also aware of the pending move and mass layoffs.

[extra88]

Yeah but that's more understandable because they're big bureaucracies and there would be too many people to include in the secret.

In what bizarro world is the head of HR not a part of management?

[jsprogrammer]

Why is a company conspiring to keep secrets from employees?