Then why isn’t the ceo being layed off if his strategy sucks?
I was let go at Unity earlier this week, and it’s hilarious how all the executives are staying, even the laughably incompetent ones.
The communication VP explained that return to office is great, she got a flat in the bay and she really enjoys commuting to the office when she is there. Not realizing how stupid that is to say to the whole company.
It’s been announced today she gets to stay. Jim the new CEO says that “executives have been punished enough by the stock price”. Like we don’t own stocks or aren’t compensated in stocks… He lives in his own little elite world, where we play with chips and they play with gold bars, he just forgot he sometimes gives us some gold if we behave. It’s rumored that executives have a 12-24 month layoff package on top of their parachutes, so Unity still has the old CEO on payroll.
If I hadn’t been there for so long I’d just take it off my resume, this company is rotting from the head and it’s going to show. Trust me when I say they did not ask anyone who should be cut, it was all a VP bingo to meet a quota. Now they motivated hundreds of devs ready to go bolster the unreal and godot crowd. I intend to spend some of my time/money helping godot find its place. Fuck em
Hmm, did the strategy of constantly making the experience of using Twitch worse for everyone, e.g. by trying to force more and more ads on viewers and streamers alike, somehow not work out the way they thought it should? I’m sure nobody could’ve seen that coming.
It wasn’t just optimistic, twitch, who is owned by Amazon, has been hiring competitively. Especially here on the west coast. They’ve been outright hiring people just so their competition doesn’t get to hire them. This happened a lot during covid during the hiring boom. Big tech would hire as much talent as I could and hoard it so others couldn’t have it. Of course, then they started layoffs last year, everyone freaked out, and nobody blamed the big companies for their terrible hiring practices the years before.
Turns out they just never had the budgets to have this many people on hand. People at Facebook came forward and just said that they were literally just sitting in offices doing nothing with nothing assigned to them
