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the guy is probably having a bout of hysteria. As already been mentioned there seems to be issues with growth and revenue (and that is in the year when gaming industry surged due to the pandemic), and that most probably threatens the would be otherwise $3B IPO, and thus such a nervous breakdown.

He comes as a tremendous jerk. I mean kicking out 150 people in your hometown where job market is much worse than say in Moscow or St.Petersburg, and with such a spite making sure that they publicly got that "fired for performance reason" black label on resume.

My limited understanding though is that such easy firing doesn't work in Russia. The fired employees probably have a case, and while it probably makes sense just to move on, some of them may decide to drag the company a bit through it with related publicity/etc.