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Comment by mseebach | Hacker News Reader

Where's the indication that NYC tech talent was hit in any significant way? From the linked article:

About 35 percent of the fourth-quarter costs are tied to eliminating 6,200 jobs in consumer banking, with operations set to be sold or scaled back in Pakistan, Paraguay, Romania, Turkey and Uruguay, according to the statement. Branches will be reduced in five other nations, including 44 in the U.S.

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It might be that no-one in NYC was fired. But I imagine that the people employed by Citi in the city (zing) are still a little nervous about their long-term prospects. When shareholders cheer people being fired, you have to wonder if you're next.

That said, it does make Thinkful's offer to "ex-Citi employees" a little less likely to be taken up.

If that's the case then thinkful might want to consider rewording "Your new CEO just fired _you_ and..." on that landing page

I strongly doubt that anyone in Citi you'd want to hire for a startup is working under any kind of illusion that Citi is an employment project. If your unit isn't profitable (enough), it's shut. Of course the stock market likes that - or rather, dislikes the opposite.

I read the message as "Your industry sucks to work in now, doesn't it? Why not come to our website to study web programming online so you can come join the tech startup industry instead?"

That's a very charitable reading.

It's a PR play for the training outfit, and not a terribly good one, IMO.

The post is an advertisement to be sure. But they are being somewhat charitable themselves by giving their service away for free to ex-Citi employees.

Ah, but how many get the full service, and not just online course material? How do they scale their "one-on-one help" to 11k people?

Thinkful only get paid when a hiring manager employs somebody that they introduced. If I were to be an old curmudgeon, this is PR off the back of bad news, to try and scalp potential leads and resumes.

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