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by mobilejdral 533 days ago
Because there was general layoffs of the workers in the previous year or two? There is a fairly formulaic way that companies tighten belts. First you do layoffs, get rid of projects that will never make money, reduce headcount for orgs that grew fat, etc. At the same time you explore offshoring (especially as it keeps the same number of headcount under a vp for less cost). Then there is a round of cleaning up the management layer, making sure everyone has a minimum number of reports, moving some managers back to being leads/IC etc.

This was all formulaic and the more experienced directors and VP's back in 2022 knew this and immediately started playing the new corporate game to win in the long run.