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Reddit had layoffs today. Smug data scientists take an L. They didn't even get a severance LM-frickin-AO

Blind thread: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Reddit-Layoffs-TiryTRSE

God I hate Reddit, but if we have any jannies on that powerjanny call tomorrow, maybe bring this up!

No severance lmao

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They had layoffs in January. Wish I had known so I could gloat about that one too.

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Left Twitter bcuz of mean ol' Musk just to get the wingcuck layoff with no severance.

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Booohooo muh third-party app devs have to pay now booohooo

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My feelings exactly.

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They laid off 100 people or 5% of their overall workforce. If they had up to 100 people on a data science team that would be absolutely hilarious. The frick are 2000 reddit employees even doing?

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Riot famously had 2000+ employees back when they ran just League of Legends, and made 2 major updates every 6 months.

Dota 2’s entire team is like 30 people total.

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Once again confirming the superior game.

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That was how I felt when I heard that twitter laid off so many employees. Like I work for a global law firm and we have like 5k employees total all over the globe.

What the frick are all these tech employees doing?

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I mean I worked at start-up companies with fake business models and we did nothing except try to get more venture capital funding. I think people weren't doing anything. Little different from these actually successful companies but the whole start-up culture is rooms full of fraud.

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Even if it's not the company defrauding investors there's a lot of scammers looking to get hired at legitimate startups so they can get their fraud on. They usually get away scot-free too since the victims are usually too embarrassed to admit they got scammed. I worked at a place that hired a scam artist CTO who was able to run up 6 figures on a company card and sold the company a /16 that he didn't actually own.

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That's funny. I had a client for a short time that was extremely smug and said he was a rent-a-CTO but he asked me the oddest questions about encryption like he was trying to show me he was smart but the questions were so dumb. Like asking if if I had coded encryption algorithms, which as I'm sure you know is not something a rando coder would do. I think he was trying to look smug with me but he sounded like a moron. The entire month I worked with him, he just flew from town to town and went to conferences and I still wonder wtf he did for these companies he claimed to work for.


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It blows my mind ppl make a career doing the cringe stuff I did right out of high school.

:marseysmug2: "hey do u know about cybersecurity? I recently read a blog on it and now I know almost everything. Do u know about neural nets? hey i did a neural net tutorial once.

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I don't think those guys do a darn thing lol. Maybe it was even the same guy, his last name kinda sounded like a futurama character. As soon as I met him I knew something was off, I think it's because I used to be involved in some hoodrat shenanigans in my youth so it was like a bullpooping a bullshitter kind of thing. Dude just stayed in his office all day, door closed and blinds down, when he wasn't at some conference.

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How did they interview him? I always figured these guys knew someone and got the job but then you would think the guy they knew would know what's up.


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He said everything they wanted to hear and his employment history looked legit, at least until after the fact when a lawyer got a bunch of his previous employers to admit in confidence that he scammed them too. The only reason he even got caught was because he couldn't deliver that block of IP addresses and finally ran out of excuses. They didn't even find out about the credit card shit until after he was gone. The founder was not a very good judge of character, he got really lucky finding the Woz to his Jobs early on but other than that he tended to surround himself with sycophants.

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oh your founder worked with Woz? That dude seems like such a cool dude.


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Get that bag, king

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Does nobody on the team ever have ideas for the product beyond just "let's get more funding"? Or is everyone just kinda on board with the understanding that it's all bullshit and we have to milk this while we can?

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Perfect username for this story.

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Groomercord servers are full of techcels that post to groomercord on the clock all day

I'm in trans groomercord servers :marseyspy: (I might write a book about it) and a bunch of the mods and leaders are academics or codecels that rubber stamp stuff and reply to a dozen small emails every day. A dozen emails isn't much for 8 hours. They act like hot shit for doing it though.

I've noticed a lot of them in "compliance" type IT jobs where the whole job is to screenshot code with "this is the code we changed it because X and Y reasons using [method] and it was submitted by [developer] at [current time] and tested by [me]"

But they talk big about thier software job finnbard style like "Let me educate you on the traveling salsemen problem like I'm a professor or respected science youtuber (when really my job is primarily to edit JSON files for some rslurred reason), you see--"

"and in conclusion, I am an elite philosopher of our age and am a very smart, but also deeply empathetic woman"

"--hold up, my coworker needs me to approve some tickets and put an excel table in an email (did I mention I have a tech job???) I'll see u guys in 20 minutes bc I might have to make a phone call!"


also If u went on CS career reddits and stuff 2 years ago so many people were bragging they do NOTHING and get paid :marseyxd:

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I'm at a computer touching job and got promoted from actual coding to management/lead stuff and it honestly gives me anxiety that I don't seem to be expected to do anything anymore except attend meetings that have no purpose. I am torn between "am I bad at this job" and "is all tech management like this"?

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I got temporarily handed a management position for a year (guy they originally hired for it was new and got let go for some unknown reason) with no pay raise and it was the most boring shit. We were just sitting there talking about doing things instead of actually doing things. I got so bored, I was ecstatic when they finally hired someone to fill the position.

You're not bad at the job, the job really is just that.

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It's been weeks since I last saw the actual image instead of :drafts: lol

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Looking forward to your book King

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Yeah I was wondering why a site like twitter needs 7000+ people, but I don’t know enough about coding or maintaining servers or shit like that to truly question it.

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IIRC they had an entire department for sustainability. They don't even produce/transport any physical goods.

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Codecels log in to work and 'refactor' or 'hunt down a bug' all day. There's no standard measurement of how productive they are, and other codecels agree that the problems are hard to solve so managers don't question them.

The only way to out the bad ones are to hire a much better one and compare their output against each other.

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Good codecels are at least an order of magnitude more productive than bad ones and bad ones can cause a lot of damage that takes time to reverse.

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:marseynotes: "He...works...for...dewey...cheatham...and...howe..."

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Not even close lol

Only hint you get is that I live in Pittsburgh

carp lives 45 min north from me, theres another dramatard thats like 5 min from where i live lol

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Reed Smith or K&L Gates

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I used to work at reed smith actually lol

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Fight that other dramatard and blow out carps's bussy :marseycarpmerm#aid:

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All they do is hire in order to meet some profit to headcount ratio. They dont care if they actually need the staff or if they even have work for them to do.

I hate the business side of work

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What's the source for 2000 emplyees? I was under the impession they were under 1k still.

Edit: source is wsj, thank you @Julian_H_Cope

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What the frick were 2k people doing at reddit??

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holy shit they have 2000 employees for a glorified message board wtf

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Maintaining a bloated corporate codebase takes an absurd number of substandard engineers crawling over the work behind by more competent engineers like a horde of flies looking for the right place to lay their commits.

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Large scale software seems like a nightmare idk how anyone works on it with a clear conscience. If my team is ever bigger than 5-10 I get the sweats

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>:marseyakshually: ummm it's not my responsibility that bug made it to prod, it's the QA, then the person checking the QA before closing the story, then the QA checking it in a higher environment, then the person checking that the change has properly deployed to prod

It's a little like how I imagine being an unimportant paper pusher in Nazi Germany or the KGB

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>its another week of QA asking me to share all of my test cases and then blaming me if they dont test something because theyre all braindead r-slurs who don't read the documentation and can't rub two braincells together to come up with a single test on their own.

I refuse to believe they have any actual workload.

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like a horde of flies looking for the right place to lay their commits

:gokulaugh:

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>The frick are 2000 reddit employees even doing?

Watching CP.

IN HONOR OF @COMMUNISTHOMOGROYPER'S SEXUAL DEGENERACY:

TRANS FURRY LIVES MATTER

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Literally how does Reddit have 2000 employees? That's almost the size of Citadel Securities and they make like 25x the amount of profit per year as all of Reddit's revenue.

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Do you really need how badly reddit is ran spelled out for you?

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Name another site that throws an "oopsie we made a fricky wucky" page at you every three days. And it's been that way literally for ever.

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An insane amount of subpar FAANG rejects I'd wager pooping up and clogging the workflow.

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They are protecting democracy, chud

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Grooming minors

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How does a 16 mil company have 2000 employees?

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