Might be biased but these Lyft ones were my First highly senior technical lay-off ive seen in tech - makes me thinking COVID is coming for us all at this point. Otherwise what I’ve been seeing was mostly startups, AI groups, R&D, marketing .
When the company’s core business model is running well then things like COVID would affect the moonshot projects/divisions but lyft/Uber’s core business model itself is under jeopardy
When layoff happen, performance is not the main criteria. The same spread happened when other tech companies did layoffs in the past - ex: Twitter in 2015
What % was engineering vs other ?
“Highly visible in the community” doesn’t mean much about delivering value to the company. It could even be negatively correlated if people are spending undue amounts of time on open source work.
Is contributing to Blind considered open source work?
Yes, it has affected engineers. Can confirm that.
Highly visible = Highly paid
"Highly visible to the community" == recruiting honeypots. They exist to bring people in the door, not very useful when you're not recruiting.
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My roommate got laid off and got better job. They laid off lot of good folks
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“Usually underperformers” - what’s your YOE? when mass lay-offs are underway, it’s never about just under performers.