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		scarface74 on Dec 29, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things I have learnt as the software engineering l... That was the problem at Yahoo. It's better to have one mass layoff and be done with it instead of having multiple small layoffs.

ralfd on Dec 29, 2017 [–]

Yahoo had a hundred other problems.

MBCook on Dec 29, 2017 | [–]

Ive been at a company with multiple rounds of small layoffs. Each time they didn’t want to cut too deep or thought ‘maybe this will be enough’. It wasn’t.

It was a total moral DISASTER.

If you need to cut, cut. But multiple layoffs will kill you.

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