Hearing rumors of some layoffs at New Relic hitting the SRE org hard. Can anyone confirm?
Can confirm
Details
Behind paywall it says around 20 layoffs.
20 folks or 20%
So it was a 100ppl company? Impressive
It's less than 20 people, globally. Definitely not "hard" but never good news for anyone involved but especially those losing their jobs.
Context for "hard" in my post referring to the *number* of total people who were affected and lost their jobs. E.g. X company was hit hard by layoffs is generally understood to mean lots of them happening. Not referring to the difficulty of the process, pain and shit show of a process that the SREs went through. Leadership will likely be slammed with questions at the upcoming all hands, and rightly so.
Fair point. I edited my comment to be less of a jerk.
<20 people
It was a reorg.. but yes very few ppl were let go
CEO scolds employees is not a headline anyone wishes to see about a company. https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2020/07/new-relic-ceo-scolds-employees-in-internal-memo-we-are-a-company-with-an-urgent-need-to-get-back-on-track.html?outputType=amp
Next you can expect a delayed and low (2-5%) hike.
Why are you curious? Are you joining there?
No but I am concerned with the idea that New Relic would nuke their SRE team.
Why are you concerned?