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Snap CEO Hired Chief Business Officer, Then Changed His Mind (bloomberg.com)
According to a report from Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel officially made Kristen O'Hara, former longtime WarnerMedia/Time Warner exec, the chief business officer of Snap, but changed his mind two days later. Spiegel decided to hire Jeremi Gorman, who oversaw ad sales at Amazon, instead. "The switch was jarring for Snap's sales division, as O'Hara was well-liked," Bloomberg reports. "Now she's gone." From the report: In a statement to employees Monday, O'Hara told colleagues she is leaving due to changes in team structure. Even if Gorman works well in the role, the incident has eroded trust in Spiegel's decision-making as he is working to improve his leadership skills, and as Snap is depending on new managers to help boost the company's performance. Snap confirmed O'Hara's departure and declined to comment on the circumstances. In an email to the business solutions team on Monday, provided by Snap, Spiegel praised her leadership. Spiegel wrote: "In her time here, Kristen had an immediate and positive impact on the company. She had a deep understanding of our business from the outset and forged strong client relationships that we will continue to build upon. I will miss the leadership and enthusiasm she brought to the organization and wish her only continued success. Jeremi joins us with proven expertise and talent that will make our platform even better for our partners, and I am excited to have her on our team."
Who cares?
Why is this on slashdot? It's meaningless drivel. Who cares who is hired/fired to "manage"? It's not relevant to the success of the company. The people on the ground will be who makes things succeed or not. How is this, "Stuff that matters?"
What does this have to do with technology or nerdy news?
What the heck is "Snap"?
Partners, Snap has partners?
Forget that, Span has more than 3 people, and is in need of leadership?
No, forget that - Snap has a sales division? Lol, what are they selling - your personal information, sliced and diced made to order?
Because really, what is the product that Snap has?
, but changed his mind two days later.
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Kristen had an immediate and positive impact on the company.
Did I miss something? How on Earth do you make an impact in two days.
Why are there no stories about Gab being banned from the Internet?
This is the main problem I have with capitalism. Not enough information. My bro just took a job that was supposed to be a 12 month contract to hire sys admin job with an emphasis on writing automation scripts. Pay was good so he took it.
Turns out it's just a monitoring gig, 6 month contract that might get extended twice to 18 before they fire him because 18 months is the most you can keep a contractor before the state gov't starts asking questions about taxes. He left a stable job for it because he wanted something that would improve his career. The better pay made it look like it really was a sys admin+light programming job. Now he's gonna waste another 6-18 months in a go nowhere contract.
Now, at CEO level this probably isn't much of an issue. It's a nuisance at best. At my bro's level losing 6-18 months of career building is devastating.
We need more worker protections. The reason other countries make it hard to fire is it makes employees valuable. You put effort into your employees. Same for stopping this "Contract to Hire" bullshit. And we should give _everyone_ unemployment regardless of why they're fired. I don't care of the occasional surfer dude gets lazy and hangs out on unemployment. It's not like it pays much. But right now companies can outright lie to me and mine to get us to take jobs that we think are great but suck, and it's not that easy to just change jobs. It's not a bloody Twinkie.
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Snap Inc.
Snap Inc. is an American technology and social media company, founded on September 16, 2011, by Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy and based in Venice, California. It has four products: Snapchat, Spectacles, Bitmoji, and Zenly. The company was originally named Snapchat Inc. upon its inception, but it was rebranded on September 24, 2016, as Snap Inc. in order to include the Spectacles product under a single company.More at Wikipedia
Formerly called:
Snapchat Inc. (2011â"2016)
Type:
Public
Traded as:
NYSE: [ ], Class A (non-voting), Class B (single vote, private), Class C (10 votes, founders only, private)
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
Iz it cuz I iz a womyn?
The best way to improve a business is to improve the product of that business. What's a "business solutions team" supposed to do? Improve business opportunities? Improve recognition by other businesses? I'm not sure.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
What the heck is "Snap"?
A snap judgment/decision is "a judgment or decision made quickly, without careful thought or discussion."
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She had a deep understanding of our business from the outset
I call bs. Even a cursory look at Snapchat's history and recent business decisions shows no one there has a deep understanding of their business.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
How the fuck is a CEO "working to improve his leadership skills"? That's some next level shit.
A lot of the comments have been variations of how is this relevant to slashdotters. If you're young and haven't yet entered the market, this is an actual example of corporate double talk that you're probably going to have to deal with out there in the real world, not some Doonesbury cartoon or SNL parody. I suppose that's some justification for it being here.
Because if you don't support the Democrat party of Hollywood / Silicon Valley / Wall Street / media elites, you're a racist. ... Or something.
Does that make it a "snap decision"?
There was a huge layoff of technical recruiters in 2001, along with everyone else. There was another huge layoff in 2008. Each time this happened a lot of knowledge and expertise was lost, along with ethics.
Today's recruiters are college dropouts. Not the kind that Silicon Valley built itself with. These are the other kind. Some of them have college degrees. They want to learn but they are stuck with the dregs for leadership and management.
Keep this is mind when evaluating the following narrative:
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29 October 2018 USPS Certified Mail Reciept # 7018 0680 0000 3326 8185
State of California
Department of Industrial Relations
Labor Commissioner
455 Golden Gate Ave.,Â10th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102
Attn: Retaliation Complaint Investigation Unit (RCI)
To whom it may concern:
I was recently contacted by Harvey Nash USA â" a recruiting firm located in New Jersey â" via electronic mail, as a candidate for a temporary position they were recruiting for, on behalf of Genentech, in California. [1]
This initial email, sent at 6:30 California time, was followed by a series of text messages less than two hours later in which the recruiter attempted to goad me into reading my email. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
I logged into my electronic mail account and read the electronic mail referenced above [1]. I did not see any information relating to compensation in the description of the temporary employment position.
I sent the recruiter an electronic mail requesting the compensation range, as described in California Labor Code 432.3. [10]
After three hours had passed I sent the recruiter another electronic mail requesting the compensation range, again, as described in California Labor Code 432.3. [11]
I received an answer that was evasive and useless. [12]
I informed the recruiter, politely, that his employer was obligated, under California Labor Code 432.3, to provide candidates with compensation information, upon request. [13]
I note, in passing, that Genentech surely knows this and is negligent in failing to instruct their agents of their duty.
I received an electronic mail from Brad Oremâ(TM)s manager at Harvey Nash USA, Erick Bosquez, stating that he was intervening in the relationship to terminate Harvey Nash USAâ(TM)s relationship with me (which must surely be over two decades old â" possibly older than Mr Bosquez) and that to insure that Harvey Nash USA never submitted me to another job in the State of California, that he was removing me from the corporate database. [14]
This seems a rather extreme reaction to me.
Based on information and belief Mr Bosquez then relayed my personal identifying information to others in his business outside of Harvey Nash USA, via web interface and/or electronic mail, in an attempt to insure that I would be blackballed in the information technology industry and never work again.
Based on the above evidence, Harvey Nash USA is engaged in the business of technical recruiting, in California, while at the same time systematically and deliberately flouting California labor laws.
Based on the above evidence, Harvey Nash USA management is consciously and deliberately violating California Labor Code 432.3, as well as whatever labor codes relate to retaliation.
Based on the above evidence, retaliating against candidates whom insist upon abiding by the law is a standard policy at Harvey Nash, sanctioned at the highest levels of the organizationâ(TM)s management.
Based on the above evidence, Harvey Nash USA quite likely violates these laws on a regular basis with many other candidates, many of whom are California citizens, and at least some of whom remain unaware that their rights were violated.
As a California citizen, and as a victim of these predatory and criminal tactics, I request you to use your legal authority to enforce California Labor Code 432.3 against these California-located corporations, such as Genentech, and their crony recruiting agencies, such as Harvey Nash USA â" who are telecommuting into California and not just taking recruiting work from California citizens, but acting like criminals, and even heavy-handed thugs, in the process.
Oh my! Something else in this world not to give a shit about.
I've got billions of things not to give a fuck about and now this?
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Whatever. You suck.
Because no one but Nazis care.
Shall we call it a "Snap decision"?
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Plebs without direct reports cannot comprehend the power-play at executive level. You should all abstain from making comments losers.
Snap (sounds like the start of Snapple)? Is that some kind of drink? Never heard of them.
Really?
"In her time here, ... ... I will miss the leadership and enthusiasm she brought ..."
In two days? What kind of time scale are they working on?
Perhaps they are working with ultra micro incremental development. Perhaps 1 hour sprints.
This was a clever strategy to get credit for hiring two women, but only having to keep one on full time.
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Suddenly the beauty of open, uncensored human expression without oppressive censorship is a Nazi ideal.
You people are fucking insane.