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by driverdan
4 days ago
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Why does someone always say this about a tech company when they have layoffs, regardless of company size? 465 employees is not that large. Patreon handles millions of transactions. They need support, sales, engineers, etc. If anything I'm surprised they're not well over 1000. |
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I struggle to make sense of the employee counts at large companies too, and I own a small business and have started or managed several others in various industries. It really seems like it’s a circular employment scheme of sorts. On Monday JackPak releases version 2.0.31, which fixed nothing but now the blue is red and doit(task) has been deprecated and replaced by do_it(task). Incessant “new version = yass” mentality provides pay justifications on Monday to install it. Oops, do_it() is a performance regression and check_it() doesn’t work with JackPackER 1.98.03 - that’s critical stuff - so the support team justifies pay on Tuesday while engineers justify the rest of the week putting out fires. Designers scramble to “take advantage” of the new display_text(), which displays the same text as before, but with a method that isn’t supported by client programs older than a year, so a slice of traffic goes away. Someone is paid to report the dip in sales due to reduced traffic while someone else is paid to pump it back up. Had to build 20 new servers to handle the do_it() regression; someone wake up the NOC.
Entire buildings were kept busy, the service runs slower on supported client systems due to 100 new dependencies (they’ll want to upgrade soon, but will be forced to with the next version bump anyway), and the only discernible change is that the logon button has double the white space around it. Someone should change that so it has rounded corners, then make it triangular, transparent, retro-square again, put it in the hamburger, make it blue, 18 megabyte PNG, someone wake up NOC.
On Monday JohnnyPak releases version 3.0.34.