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I use Pluralsight but it just shocks me to hear that it has so many full-time employees in the first place.

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Same. I don't know what they're all doing to be honest.

Pluralsight bought 12 different learning platforms 2-6 years ago. I have no idea how much consolidation they have done.

https://www.crunchbase.com/search/acquisitions/field/organiz...

Wow. With that in mind, I'm inclined to believe their layoffs are more about taking advantage of the climate to appropriately downsize than they are about any new financial stress.

I joined a company that provided Pluralsight to technical staff, policy was that all technical staff had to complete some mandatory courses on there. Pluralsight used two Account Managers to put on a live webinar for myself and another lead in my division to introduce us to Pluralsight

The webinar wasn't especially useful, there were only 15 technical staff in our division and I still don't know why it wasn't just a pre-recorded video learning course on their video learning platform.

I've never seen or even heard of a computer-based corporate training course that wasn't an absolute joke. I don't think quality of material and instruction are any factor whatsoever in those purchasing decisions.

>>any factor whatsoever in those purchasing decisions

As someone that is involved in making those purchasing decisions, I disagree with that assessment

Do you speak for all people that make purchasing decisions - are you an industry guru? - or are you speaking just yourself?

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