New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How does a tech person work well in a fire-all-developers style company?
Ask HN: How does a tech person work well in a fire-all-developers style company?
17 by corp_confusion | 26 comments on Hacker News.
Recently Travis CI was acquired by Idera, and it's been followed by widespread firing of developers. (Same thing happened with Sencha, same company.) The model is a large company that takes loans led by private equity, acquires companies, fires all developers, replaces them with outsourced development claiming they are 'investing' in the product. This is not only Idera; other companies do the same. HN discussion here: https://ift.tt/2GNMRYB Let's suppose you're one of the few remaining after this has occurred. You're a tech-literate manager, or one of the few developers left. How do you work effectively? If you wanted to change business strategy to persuade the value of developers knowledgeable in the product area, how would you? How do you respond when sales slow after seeing the results of outsourced development? How do you communicate with that kind of corporate leadership? How can you rescue the product that you've spent so much time on and love?
17 by corp_confusion | 26 comments on Hacker News.
Recently Travis CI was acquired by Idera, and it's been followed by widespread firing of developers. (Same thing happened with Sencha, same company.) The model is a large company that takes loans led by private equity, acquires companies, fires all developers, replaces them with outsourced development claiming they are 'investing' in the product. This is not only Idera; other companies do the same. HN discussion here: https://ift.tt/2GNMRYB Let's suppose you're one of the few remaining after this has occurred. You're a tech-literate manager, or one of the few developers left. How do you work effectively? If you wanted to change business strategy to persuade the value of developers knowledgeable in the product area, how would you? How do you respond when sales slow after seeing the results of outsourced development? How do you communicate with that kind of corporate leadership? How can you rescue the product that you've spent so much time on and love?
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