[AngeloAnolin]

I don't quite understand the logic where people being laid off from their positions / responsibilities and the jobs being posted are similar in nature.

For one, are you really saving costs when you're losing some individuals with deep knowledge of the job for which you would need to re-train a new individual to come up to the same speed and productivity as with the previous person doing the job?

Doesn't this also make productive / talented / hardworking people shy away from your job posting when they know that your company recently laid off employees?

[clavalle]

I have personally been approached by internal recruiters for a position just after the company very publicly laid off people with my title and are going after 'middle management'.

I declined.

I'm a software architect but I strongly believe that the organization of people is as important as the organization of software. So architects and principals, to be the most effective, should have management authority. Middle management, if done well, makes or breaks mid to large software companies. An organization that doesn't deeply respect that role isn't anywhere I want to be.