Now, just don't tie those benefits to an NDA, and you'll truly be a company I'd look forward to getting fired from, Shopify.
It's a very controlled legal wording and process for a large redundancy approach and must be adhered to very carefully so as not to fall foul of tribunals and unfair dismissals.
I don't know Klarna or Shopify from the inside, but I suspect this difference is largely down to the differences in legal obligations between Canada and the UK
So, in my understanding at least, fired is "at fault" and redundant is "no fault".
I looked forward to reading a lay off message without the obligatory "what a journey" message but like that was in the opening paragraph. I'd say the message was fairly standard.
Tobi isn't a sociopath. The people he puts at the top aren't sociopaths. They're genuinely nice people, trying their best, and trying to do their best for everyone despite hard situations.
It truly is just a book club disguised as a publicly traded company.
In all seriousness, I would separate the fact the top executives are good people, with the fact (at least in the U.S) they have become notorious low ballers for top engineers
Maybe the dev side is better but my impression is that the design side has no ownership and is driven primarily by the loudest opinion rather than any sort of data or testing. And when you have five layers of approvals where people pick on the easiest and least important aspects that ends up being a very slow design by committee. The end result of this culture is very low efficiency and consistently mediocre outcomes.
The people who thrive in their culture appear to be the loudest and most aggressive.