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Snap Is Laying Off Around 100 Engineers

Posted by BeauHD on from the slice-and-dice dept.

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."

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  1. Isn't that the company with the messaging app? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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?

    1. Re:Isn't that the company with the messaging app? by hawguy · · Score: 2

      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?

      It turns out that even simple things are complicated when you drill down to all of the details.

      When someone asks a question like this, I like to point to the Slack decision flow to decide whether or not to show a notification. Seems simple on the surface, right? If the user is in the channel and they get a message then notify. But in reality it's considerably more complicated:

      https://twitter.com/mathowie/s...

      Now multiply this across every feature and it turns out that even a simple chat app is complicated. Throw in build engineers, QA, SRE's,24x7 monitoring, etc and it's easy to get to 100 engineers.

    2. Re:Isn't that the company with the messaging app? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      You think that's bad, look at google. Their product is just a form with a single field.

    3. Re:Isn't that the company with the messaging app? by hawguy · · Score: 3, Funny

      Who names a productivity software, "Slack"

      If you've seen the inane conversations that go on in a typical company's slack channels, you'd know that it's an appropriate name

    4. Re:Isn't that the company with the messaging app? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      no, that's just the carrot they use to attract their product

    5. Re:Isn't that the company with the messaging app? by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Exactly my question....

      "Snap reported roughly 3,000 employees as of the December quarter"

      What in the world could they be doing to need 3,000 people?? WTF?

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  2. Re:No they're not. by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Funny

    They are laying off programmers. Snap doesn't have any engineers.

    You must be from Oregon.

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