https://www.theinformation.com/articles/snap-lays-off-product-managers-as-spiegel-revamps-workforce [paywall] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/08/snap-conducts-a-small-round-of-layoffs-to-its-product-team.html Snap has laid off nearly 20 product managers, the latest shakeup at the social app after several top departures over the last three months. Separately, Snap’s longtime vice president of engineering, Nima Khajehnouri, told employees earlier this week that he was leaving. His last day at the company will be Dec. 1, a Snap spokesperson said.
Yeah, firing and hiring new product managers will bring that shit app back up 🙄
Product managers are most at risk over the next 6-12 months!
Risk of what? Feline AIDS? 🐈⬛
They are useless, they should keep designers or engineers that have real “skills” as well as skills of writing docs and organizing meetings.
Chu.. that doc is what led to the value feature to begin with , often times the work to decide what to build is way more complicated than that 2 hours of shitty coding done by an incel engineer
> "they should keep designers or engineers that have real “skills” as well as skills of writing docs and organizing meetings." Yes, because that's all we do is spontaneously write docs. lol This actually seems like a big problem for product mgmt though that so many ppl have this impression. the way I see it, its like an ice berg and no one sees or understands all the work that happens before the waterline. They just see a tiny part sticking up above the water (the doc or the colorful timeline) and say "I can do that too!". Its the "why behind the plan that is impactful and time consuming. We don't spontaneously start throwing words onto a page. (grumble)
I was just reading about a Chewy.com layoff yesterday too, that was mostly focused on Product Mgrs and Directors. And now this. What's happening with the field of Product ?!?
Too focused on launching features and getting promotions. Less focused on delighting customers and profit.
Organizational Behavior 101 - ppl will behave as they're incentivized to behave.
useful
Hard to say if this is a trend. Different companies / orgs have different types of "bloat" depending on internal politics.
"part of the company’s plans to increase decision-making speed" 'flabbergasted!' will be an understatement.
Sounds like code for moving toward more top-down management.
Horrible decision. Their product already looks so overwhelming and confusing. It’s like they launch every feature they think of on the shitter
Don’t you think that might have something to do with too many PMs who all need to justify their impact?
On the contrary, snap has very very few consumer PMs. It’s largely run by design & eng. very similar to notion