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Comment by ssiddharth | Hacker News Reader

Any idea which departments the 300 being let go are from? Would be interesting, in a rather morbid sense…

It could also tell us customers a bit about what kind of impact to expect from this. Content -wise if it's buyers. Or reliability wise if it's tech people.

There were claims that the last round significantly impacted folks working on some critical intersectional across race / ethnicity / gender identity type programming.

There were some articles about the layoffs last time and the major backlash that resulted. Protocol covered this, noting "Protocol identified at least 40 people from marginalized backgrounds who lost their jobs in the latest round of cuts."

Interestingly, as I read this Meta announcement a settlement on similar discrimination claims:

"Discrimination in housing, employment and credit is a deep-rooted problem with a long history in the US, and we are committed to broadening opportunities for marginalized communities in these spaces and others," Roy Austin Jr., Meta's vice president of civil rights, wrote in a blog post.

It was people working for marketing related to gender- and race-based programming that Netflix also mostly dropped in the past year when it decided to shift from targeting niche audiences to going for the pure-blockbuster play (i.e., from Babysitters Club to Squid Game).

> targeting niche audiences to going for the pure-blockbuster play (i.e., from Babysitters Club to Squid Game).

Well played.

I took a look at netflix's top 20 or so shows on their feed. Pretty eye opening in terms of what is getting watched, even down out of the top 10 or so.

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