More layoffs
Mar. 26th, 2009 05:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonMore layoffs at Zillian, snivel snivel.
They're going in the order I would've expected. The first round was recruiters; next, sales and marketing. This is not a very big round in a company that has thousands of people in sales and marketing, so I wonder somewhat if this was just an excuse to clean up a bit. And I wonder if they'll feel the urge to clean up their engineers. One thing I haven't done yet in my career is been laid off, or survived through rounds of layoffs that happened around me. I've been sort of close twice:
On a random note, I think I might need this Possibilities Cardigan from Anthropologie. I really like three (!) of the ways it can be worn, and it seems a lot less fussy than those crazy sari-type dresses that you can supposedly wear a bunch of ways but only if you're really talented.
They're going in the order I would've expected. The first round was recruiters; next, sales and marketing. This is not a very big round in a company that has thousands of people in sales and marketing, so I wonder somewhat if this was just an excuse to clean up a bit. And I wonder if they'll feel the urge to clean up their engineers. One thing I haven't done yet in my career is been laid off, or survived through rounds of layoffs that happened around me. I've been sort of close twice:
- there were big layoffs among the engineers at my old Colubrid office a few weeks ago (it was the same day I got my bonus, which made me feel really weird), and
- the 100 recruiting positions that Zillian cut a few months ago knocked out two jobs here in this office, but those weren't engineers.
On a random note, I think I might need this Possibilities Cardigan from Anthropologie. I really like three (!) of the ways it can be worn, and it seems a lot less fussy than those crazy sari-type dresses that you can supposedly wear a bunch of ways but only if you're really talented.
