Airbnb layoffs today

Airbnb
Airbnb🧳

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Airbnb🧳
May 5, 2020 258 Comments

1900 people (27%) impacted
14 weeks plus a week per year of employment. rounded up.
acclerated vesting to the next window
keep your laptop
healthcare for a year through COBRA
nobody knows if they are impacted. expecting emails by 6pm pst

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  • Are engineers affected?
    May 5, 2020 12
  • Google
    peekab

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    peekab
    What signs?
    May 5, 2020 12
  • Uber
    tsee

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    tsee
    Super generous severance. And you get to keep laptop. Airbnb and Lyft at least did the best they could.

    Uber is for sure going to give shit severance and minimal health coverage.
    May 5, 2020 8
    • Security shouldn’t be a concerned since Lyft can remotely wipe the data.
      May 5, 2020
    • Uber
      Dolo

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      Dolo
      I was laid off from Uber in Sep 2019. Severance was 1 month on payroll + 4 weeks + 2 weeks for every year of service (prorated, cap of 8). So not terrible, but not nearly as good as Airbnb
      May 5, 2020
  • Google
    ssodej

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    ssodej
    It’s inevitable...especially given that this company puts the PC bullshit before anything else. Two examples: 1. Their recruiters stalked me and my friends on FB to determine if we were actually female, since they only hired Asian females. 2. Their CEO said in an internal memo that “Asian males are overrepresented”.
    May 5, 2020 16
    • The asian prefix is super bias... I am not sure if your story is true. But my well positioned friend in Airbnb told me that during the hire freezing period by the end of last year. They only screen female/minority (definitely not asian or white...). Unless, they can't find a match from those biased candidate pool, they will start to reach out others... In the normal days, it would be like other SV companies, hire aggressively by interviews, maybe a little lower bar for minorities.
      May 5, 2020
    • Uber / Eng
      fgyewnxu5

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      fgyewnxu5
      They only focus on leetcode in interviews and don't even care how you think about the problem. Just if the solution passes the tests or not. Of course that will bias to a certain workforce demographic
      May 6, 2020