I like how the verb in the headline evolves every time I see this story. First he was surprised. Then he was shocked. Now he’s alarmed. Maybe I’ll check back tomorrow and learn he’s horrified!
Flabbergasted!
slammed
Layoffs are a leadership failure so should always be accompanied by firing them too
It’s just insane to me that it even takes 1500 people to run Spotify to begin with
People think that because you can build a Spotify clone with two sticks and a heroku subscription it must not need a lot of people to work on. It’s what Elon said about Twitter prior to buying it and gutting all the features.
These apps are first and foremost businesses with legal, HR, and all sorts of other roles before you get to product. And the products are so mature, so complex, that you need dozens of teams to cover the entire thing