These new job cuts are not related to performance, the spokesperson said.
You can be a star and still tossed aside. Might as well log in and read about personal finance.
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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You can do everything right, and fail anyway. This is a core aspect of life.
Which means do not attach your self worth to your job, or your academics, or whether or not you live up to some imposed standard, or at what age you accomplish something or another. Self worth must be inherently internal.
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Have they considered dumping another hundred billion in Sam Altman’s asshole? Maybe that would help.
year of the Linux desktop hitting hard
These articles always talk only about the layoffs, never hirings or total employee numbers over time. But then it usually isn't much of a story anymore.
A quick search lead me to this site that provides some numbers. These layoffs would put them back to 22/23 levels, so somewhat of a plateau after they roughly doubled their headcount in the decade before.
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