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Mozilla lays off 70

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929 points ameshkov | 1 comments | 15 Jan 20 19:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.243s | source
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sstangl ◴[15 Jan 20 23:42 UTC] No.22060115[source]▶
I'm one of the 70. There were no signs that this was imminent, although Mozilla has been struggling financially for many years. I expected that it would happen eventually; I'm relatively well-prepared for it; and it's not too shocking. I did however expect that there would be some warning signs in the lead-up, but that was not the case.

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_kp6z ◴[16 Jan 20 00:22 UTC] No.22060406[source]▶
Sounds like a pretty clueless layoff, I guess I expected better from Mozilla than usual corporate derp. If there was truly no dead weight, surely the management could have scaled back their own comp for misdirecting the company? Very few people understand what it means to be a leader in corporate world.
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scarface74 ◴[16 Jan 20 00:42 UTC] No.22060544[source]▶
How much could they have scaled backed their comp to save 70 jobs?
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1. mcny ◴[16 Jan 20 00:48 UTC] No.22060584[source]▶
If they scaled back their own compensation maybe it would be half of seventy? Better than inadvertently laying off someone you need I would imagine...