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Comment by rsynnott | Hacker News Reader

This surely has to impact their ability to hire in the future. Like, personally I’ve never heard of Flexport before, and it doesn’t really sound like my sort of thing in any case, but… presumably at some point they will want to hire again, and this feels like it’ll put off anyone who has other options.

(I’m always baffled at these really poorly handled layoffs - most companies doing layoffs will need to hire again at some point, potentially in a competitive environment. The internet exists; people will look it up.)

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Didn't FAANG, minus Apple, all rescind offer letters when the great reckoning started happening?

What triggered "the great reckoning" by the way? Was it Musk firing 80% of Twitter staff, and everyone started following suit?

Lots of "economic uncertainty". Although I think the economy was just normal, and big tech just massively over hired

Lots of economic uncertainty following a couple years of “these difficult times”. No, not the pandemic, the Fed’s raising of interest rates

I think it's mostly the quantitative tightening.

Uh, yeah. At this point in time, this is the first and only thing I know about Flexport.

There's probably a reason their hiring posts here have comments disabled

tbf.. all YC hiring posts have their comments disabled..

I hate this, actually. I think it's fair to be able to comment on companies that are using the platform to advertise, in case there are things that need to be know.

Even reddit lets you comment on advertising posts.

Generally there wouldn't be any positive comments on an advertising post.

OK, and?

I don't care if Flexport offers foosball. I do care if 20 people say "I was hired, and they pulled my offer three days before my start date."

How do you know those people are telling the truth or even people? Remember, there is a lot of astroturf on the Internet. A good way to spot corporate astroturf is to watch which companies have people who defend them no matter what they do. Another tip is look for companies which are bashed even when they do great work. That is a sign one of their competitors is paying for astroturf.

VC leadership isn't going to want fair

Here are some pointers to why HN doesn’t have comments on job posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32586658

Thanks - there's also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31602113, as well as this from pg in 2010:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2022116

HN companies have a history of breaking labor laws - I have noticed several times that posts hiring in NYC for example do not include salary ranges, which is required by law.

It is not surprising.

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