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Flattening the Organization

It's a fateful coincidence that 2 of the most consequential social networks of the past decade—Twitter and Facebook—have undergone substantial layoffs in the past year, for different reasons. At the same time, the CEOs of both companies have called for flatter organizational structures, particularly within their massive engineering teams: engineering managers...

A Weighted Job Opportunities Matrix

It's 2023, but the layoffs in tech continue unabated from last year, impacting some of the biggest companies in our industry. Fortunately, reports suggest that workers are able to find new jobs within a couple of months of a layoff, as their skills remain in demand amid short supplies of talent. For those...

The Utility of 360° Feedback

Ah, the 360° feedback process. It's a common practice for HR teams of larger companies to implement, as a way to counteract managerial biases and singular points of view, by involving more perspectives...

The Tech Down Turn

Layoffs.fyi is the new FuckedCompany.com. It's a crowdsourced tracker of all the layoffs happening in tech. I remember the site first started with the initial COVID lock down: when seemingly overnight,...

A Mystery Retrospective

When the COVID shutdowns began and my kids were forced to learn from home, I noticed that they were enamored with this app that taught them STEM concepts. Specifically, the app featured a bunch of...