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Their Github org seems to have gone from 45 to 37 members. Not sure what that means, do they only have 37 devs?

https://github.com/orgs/soundcloud/people

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Lo9slf...

edit: now it's at 35... ouch

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I wonder why they decided to remove them from GitHub already [1] when they were given a 90 days notice [2].

[1] https://twitter.com/pje_txt/status/882983954059595776 [2] https://twitter.com/pje_txt/status/882981765064871937

Maybe to limit the damage notified (and thus possibly upset) employees can cause.

That must've been an interesting calculation. Now they're paying dozens of employees that literally aren't able to work three months worth of salary.

Severance is pretty common, and some companies will just keep you technically employed (and thus paid, and even given health insurance) with no expectation of you doing work or coming into the office. Three months is definitely on the generous side, but not that unusual from what I've seen and heard.

Yep. Severance is pretty common when employees are "laid off" i.e. their employment is terminated not because of employees fault. And generally, you are informed of it, and your credentials and such are revoked almost immediately.

Quite different from when you voluntarily leave, when you give notice and do knowledge transfer and such. I imagine that is because the employee is unlikely to do anything bad, since they likely have a better future.

They're going to place work second anyway (to finding a new job). It's usually to give them a severance, not screw folks on a visa, etc.

Spot on. You never know who might have taken the news in a bad way and decides to lash out.

Often times (in the US) the 90 days notice doesn't mean anything badge/credentials wise. You are walked out that evening (sometimes supervised) and your credentials are revoked asap.

WARN layoffs in NY require 90 days protection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...

The default settings for my org were private membership and I hadn't realized it until later on. There may be more developers who just are private

those are just the people who publically show they're part of that org.

yeah. You have to chose to be publicly visible as part of an org. I can assure you they have more than 35 devs.

It was never more than 100 at a time tho.

With these layoffs, I'm guessing it's hovering around 60

They are very thin in engineering as is my understanding.

I heard it was disabled during/before an all hands this morning.

people have to choose to display publicly that they are part of a github org. I can assure you they have more than 35 devs.

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