So far, there’s only a BlueSky post from someone claiming to be one of the laid-off engineers, but if confirmed, it doesn’t bode well.

  • zikzak025
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    20 days ago

    Who knows. This sounds like one of those moves a company makes before looking to sell themselves off to the highest bidder.

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      20 days ago

      If they’re eliminating almost all engineers, they’d be selling it for scrap, rather than as a going concern. Perhaps as AI training data to some techbros wanting to build a slop machine.

    • mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      20 days ago

      I though layoff happen by the new orders rather than the orevious owner laying off then a new company buy it