[igvadaimon]

I was valued. Then the company laid off the whole country and stopped hiring in that country.

In the end it's just luck.

[eulers_secret]

Folks don't want to hear it, but our careers are based more on luck than any of us would like.

I avoided the first big round of layoffs at my last company. How? By being so overwhelmingly awesome and valuable that they couldn't afford to lose me?? NO!

I agreed to a smaller pay increase that year so a team member could get a much-deserved larger raise. I accepted more stock grants to help make up the difference. The next round of layoffs was based on stock packages granted to employees. More stock granted == more better, right?

Sheer luck I didn't get the notice that time.

[riehwvfbk]

If you weren't offered a relocation package, then you probably weren't actually valued. Probably along with the entire office in the country.

[igvadaimon]

My team/org wasn't even in that country, I was just working remotely from it.

[npodbielski]

Maybe he was valued in his department but department was not valued inside the company.

[riehwvfbk]

That's... what I said.

The entire office was likely seen as "staff augmentation" rather than strategic.