Why do people on LinkedIn care so much about Airbnb layoffs?

Xilinx / Eng
Covid 2020

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Covid 2020
May 7, 2020 33 Comments

I saw so many posts about Airbnb (of the I'm so sad but I'm glad to still have a job, please reach out if I can help in any way kind ๐Ÿ™„) while there have been hundreds of other companies with layoffs

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  • Intel
    whamba

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    Roku
    whamba
    Show offs, people will do anything to get likes on their posts
    May 7, 2020 4
  • I don't like that either. Some people are just faking the sympathy to get likes. If someone reaches out, I doubt they will even help.
    May 7, 2020 3
    • Stripe
      rssv11

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      rssv11
      Wait, you expected this person in your network to do the work for you? You should have found the roles you were interested in, see if that person is connected to people at that (/those) company(/ies), and then approached. How is this hard to understand?
      May 15, 2020
    • Amazon
      Mr.Jupyter

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      Mr.Jupyter
      Yeah man I have literally thousands in my LinkedIn network. I canโ€™t stand it when someone simply sends me a resume and expects a recruiting email to magically appear in the next few days. Give me a goddamn job posting.
      May 19, 2020
  • Intel
    whamba

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    whamba
    Also airbnb guys are the least to need help as they LC hard and have a fat severance package. How about helping other folks who have been laid off? Fuck these scumbags trying to prop themselves up on linkedin
    May 7, 2020 3
  • Lyft
    draco_m

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    draco_m
    Its quite shallow. Can see right through all those posts from โ€œsafeโ€ employees. If theyโ€™re not offering direct and active help, even if itโ€™s as small as offering to read over and edit a personโ€™s resume or cover letter, or anything specific really, then all of it is just for show. Which definitely seems to be the case on LinkedIn. Think it could also be a form of boosting their brands and egos subconsciously, e.g theyโ€™re making it known to everybody else that they still have jobs.
    May 7, 2020 1
  • Microsoft / Eng
    cholical

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    cholical
    One possibility is that AirBnB was doing well so the layoffs were unexpected. Compare this to uber which already had layoffs and lyft which was never very stable from a business perspective.
    May 7, 2020 3
    • Microsoft / Eng
      cholical

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      cholical
      I meant pre covid. Uber was laying off before covid
      May 7, 2020
    • Airbnb / Eng
      dbvL60

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      dbvL60
      The $2B borrowed was a signal that we werenโ€™t going to have layoffs (for me at least). The layoffs came as a surprise and for me ruined the single opportunity Iโ€™ve had in my entire career to gain a decent amount of stock anywhere. It really sucks.
      May 9, 2020