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Dropbox Cutting 9% of Workforce (Blind)
- uibwrnbebd (eBay): Waiting for some smart ass to comment “Dropbox still exists”… he himself working at “new” lol
- AgentOfAI (Microsoft): I’m surprised they are not doing 90% layoffs. AWS, Azure, GCP ate their lunch. I don’t know what kind of masochist still uses Dropbox (except my wife’s boyfriend)
- 7yoe635k (Dropbox): Third time’s the charm! Finally got picked. 🫡
Got 3 offers and my wife hates all three companies lol. (Blind)
- paygoat (Adyen): You let your wife tell you what to do? She peg you too?
- aziemsjdns (Google): ByteDance is probably the least bad of all these
- EAArne (Silver Lake): I didn’t know Palantir was hiring. How did you prep? Heck how did you prep for all 3?
Google feels like career suicide (Blind)
- bdFp52 (Meta): Ever considered that they can’t afford you but don’t wanna say it out loud ?
- Turnusdown (Apple): I think the market is just not very good. Also a lot of the feedback they give for rejecting you is often BS.
- -o-O-o-/ (Meta): When someone mentions “Fast pace” - run. It means that are producing tons of low quality code, pivoting often and the code maintenance is hell.
Anthropic dropped coding interviews (Blind)
- pappu456 (Salesforce): It was never about coding, but problem solving, unless they don’t care about that either
- aziemsjdns (Google): According to his bio, he “graduated from the MSc program at the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute, researching at the intersection of sociology, law, economics”
- justread27 (Microsoft): It is just a matter of time that people clapping today will regret 6 months down the line and they will eventually realize leetcode and system design combo was way better. The infra is not fully developed yet for non leetcode style qs, the scope is not well defined, the interviewers arent fully trained yet and lastly, it is hard to find mock interviews or even simulate AI assisted interviews
Major Layoffs coming in Google (Blind)
- c0pilot256 (Microsoft): Someone must lay off the UX program managers and hundred of Strategy and Operations managers. Wth do they do? My roommate was chilling as a Ux program manager
- Dr_Clear (Meta): The stock dropped primarily due to heavy infrastructure spending (CapEx) and an accounting paper loss on SpaceX. Revenue actually grew 25% year-over-year to \$127.6 billion, and Google Cloud revenues surged 103%. The core business is expanding rapidly
- c23020b (Compass): It’s crazy seeing the big tech companies bankrupt themselves for AI obligations.