[thanatropism]

I have the feeling that these announcements never specify that it's mostly programmers or technical people, but HN reacts like it is.

Maybe they don't need as many secretaries and gophers as before?

[msikora]

Very very few devs got laid off. Vast majority was recruiting and marketing.

[deely3]

Maybe even upper management?

[Tinkerbell5481]

We were affected by this layoff, software engineering family over here.It seemed to be so random. It was people from so many different areas. We have beena GoDaddy family for over 17 years. This was a shock for sure