Every-time a PR comes out like this I see this sort of comment. Is there any evidence that layoffs are engineering based? I always assume the first to go are marketing/admin/etc rather than developers.
So I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was engineers being let go a lot of the time. Especially at non software shops where marketing is bringing in money and the engineers are a cost.
They forget the agile cycle moves from maintenance back to development again.
Makes more sense just to offer devs more holiday and less pay.
If anyone’s looking :)