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Snap Is Laying Off Around 100 Engineers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Snap is laying off about 100 engineers -- nearly 10 percent of the team -- CNBC has learned. The company has seen smaller rounds of layoffs in recent months in its marketing, recruiting and content divisions. These layoffs would be Snap's largest yet and the first to hit the company's engineers. The company last month rolled out the redesign of its pioneering photo messaging app. The redesign separated publisher content from content posted by friends and connections. Snap reported roughly 3,000 employees as of the December quarter and said in its first annual filing that it expected "headcount growth to continue for the foreseeable future."
How the fuck did they ever have 100 engineers in the first place? Not to belittle their efforts, but you'd think that even the awesomest, most futuristic, most complicated messaging app in the history of civilization would have about .. three engineers, maybe?
How complicated can it be?
I know it's a silly question, but what are those 3,000 employees doing?
Why would you need more than like six people to build the Snapchat app?
No other way to put it. Totally losing spare change. No revenue to pay employees with. Next step bankruptcy protection.
They need engineers for that?
A few co-ops and a run-of-the mill programmer could do it.
Oh, you mean "software engineers", code-monkeys, simple programmers then.
Then again, the guy who changes the TP in the building is the "maintenance engineer".
They are laying off programmers. Snap doesn't have any engineers.
I'm guessing it's something about roasting people, as in "Aw, Snap"? Or is it iot fasteners for your pants?
SNAP!!!
How many fucks?
3000? Seriously?! What are they doing - are they having all the wires, and mistresses, and dogs and cats of their employees also employed?
An application like snap hardly needs 30 people. There is a 10000% overhead in this operation.
Snap! Girl!
Milanea is sleeping where now?
I interviewed with them last year, what a bunch of condescending pricks they were ! Serves them right, good riddance !
Why is a useless company making a useless app laying off people Slashdot news ? Yesterday, toddlers at our local kindergarten decided to no longer scribble on drawing paper. This news makes exactly the same amount of difference to the world.
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
I hope that anyone involved in that GUI redesign was let go, it was absolutely terrible.
Oh snap!
Table-ized A.I.
Oh, so now an apostrophe is too much for the modern mobile web experience? Slashdot, pick up some of those engineers stat!
to snap (verb):snapped, snapping. Intransitive verb. To instantly layoff a large number of technician without any reason.
Mayb3e they realised that people don't want to buy their stupid glasses. If people didn't want Google Glass (which was relatively stylish), who wants a pair of snapchat spectacles that make you look like a right berk
If you gave me a choice between a printer and a giraffe with explosive diarrhoea, i'll get my ladder and my raincoat
To be honest, I haven't really used snap, but from what I understand it's a chat program that allows you to send photographs of your genitals to people with a hope they will be deleted before they can share them everywhere.
Let's assume you're going to build a messaging back end for that. Companies able to handle real-time data processing for 100,000+ MMORPG players which is somewhat more complex in nature do this all the time. If you also consider that using something like an XMPP back-end would save a lot of work since there are some great hardened ones out there already. The fact is, it's really about the front end and code for data collection.
So that means, they have 1000 developers mostly working on making code for a front end. Opera Software never had half that many people and accomplished substantially more.. having written more or less everything but the operating system itself. Of course, I suppose that's the different between using educated engineers and using whatever you could hire to make your corporate growth look impressive.
Do you have to be certified by the state to be allowed to work and are criminally liable for faulty programs? NO? Then you are not an engineer.
Imagine it's 10,000BC and/or you live on a remote Pacific island or Mars. There is no government. Yet, you have things you need to design and build. Under such circumstances, is it possible for someone to be an engineer?
If you say no, it sounds silly. "No, your bridge wasn't engineered, because we never established a government to hold you criminally liable if it fails."
If yes, then you're saying that professions exist of government policies. Government regulates them, but isn't a necessarily component in creating them.
(Alternative: In 1740 a man is wounded in war and a surgeon amputates his arm. No wait, he's not a "surgeon" because he never went to AMA-blessed medical school?!)
Anyone looking at the fundamentals of this company should be able to see that it's barely a company and is doomed to failure. And yet Millennials spent tons of money on the worthless stock.
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