Business Big Tech Layoffs Megathread - Techbros... we got too cocky...

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Since my previous thread kinda-sorta turned into a soft megathread, and the tech layoffs will continue until morale improves, I think it's better to group them all together.

For those who want a QRD:


Just this week we've had these going on:

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But it's not just Big Tech, the vidya industry is also cleaning house bigly:

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All in all, rough seas ahead for the techbros.
 
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Sony has confirmed Bungie is slowly being folded into PlayStation Studios, two years after the $3.6 billion acquisition.

Two years after Sony acquired Bungie in a $3.6 billion deal, the Destiny 2 developer is slowly losing the independence it was originally promised. The deal, which closed in mid-2022, was supposed to let Bungie operate as an independent subsidiary under Sony’s umbrella. But after missed revenue targets, internal struggles, and multiple rounds of layoffs, Bungie’s role within the PlayStation ecosystem is changing, dramatically.

Over the past year and a half, several key departments at Bungie have been moved under Sony. This includes teams handling marketing, publishing, HR, legal, IT, production, and most recently, strategic partnerships.
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Sony Now Says Bungie Is “Becoming Part of PlayStation Studios”
The latest update comes straight from Sony itself. During the company’s Q1 FY2025 earnings call earlier today, newly appointed Chief Financial Officer Lin Tao addressed Bungie’s status, and confirmed that its autonomy is slowly fading.

“About the governance of Bungie, at the time of acquisition, we were offering a very independent environment, so that was one way of thinking,” Tao explained.

“However, we have gone through structural reform, as we announced last year, so this independence is getting lighter, and Bungie is shifting into a role which is becoming more part of PlayStation Studios, and integration is proceeding. In the long term, you can see this as an ongoing process. So the direction is to become part of PlayStation Studios.”
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In simple terms, that means Bungie isn’t operating fully on its own anymore. Bit by bit, the studio is being folded into the larger PlayStation organization, just like Naughty Dog, Santa Monica Studio, or Guerrilla. While no specific timeline was given, Sony clearly sees Bungie as part of its long-term plans for first-party development, especially around live-service projects.

Bungie has had a rough stretch recently. Reports suggest the studio had around 1,600 employees before its October 2023 and July 2024 layoffs. After two major rounds of cuts and transitions into Sony, it’s believed that only about 850 employees remain.

In related news, Destiny 2’s latest expansion, The Edge of Fate’s pre-orders are reportedly down nearly 50% compared to The Final Shape. This follows a continued drop in player engagement and interest, adding further pressure on Bungie as it works through internal restructuring and full integration into PlayStation Studios.
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Lord of the Large Pants said:
HR, stretched thin? Nothing about HR workers is thin.

But seriously, what the fuck does HR actually DO at this point? They don't interview, they don't hire, they don't do any internal support. Are they seriously just dicking around on Instagram 8 hours a day?
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They do layoffs and then fill out / oversee A.I in filling out H1B Jeet applications after posting ghost jobs
 
Lord of the Large Pants said:
But seriously, what the fuck does HR actually DO at this point? They don't interview, they don't hire, they don't do any internal support. Are they seriously just dicking around on Instagram 8 hours a day?
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Most of HR is filled with extremely old women who, among their many many flaws, Refuse to learn or change anything they do. Take this from my own personal experience, HR will drag its feet on any part of their job that changes, at all, ever, period. Some corporate rebranding required me to change the text color of emails my system sends at the bottom of its automated notifications. This proceeded to cause a two month feature freeze as HR melted down about how this would ruin their workflows because some fucking reason or another. Whenever the higher powers that be mandate some basic level of tracking and work awareness, HR will maliciously comply until the mandate gets cut by deliberately fucking up every step of any ticket system or process they're given, and then whine that it can't automagically their work the same way they could operating out of a single shared email box.

HR is quite possibly one of the most difficult internal customers you can work with, even beyond Finance. At least in the coin counter realm, they have reason to have such strict requirements with all the government rules and audits. HR Land is a cult where some retard dropped a spreadsheet in 1994 and now by gods decree it is the one way to do it until she retires because god forbid anyone question her divine tool.

So they spend all their time complying with the increasingly cargo culted bullshit and doing everything the hardest way possible. I'm not even convinced that they're doing it in some effort to justify higher headcount and preserve jobs, I genuinely think they just started by enjoying larping at being hard workers by sheer volume, and its become a hell as office catfights turn that into some weird pride and culture thing where you would have to be calling everyone else out if you said there was a problem, and the sisterhood won't stand it.
 
Somewhat related,
Mar Williams created this year's badge and much of the art all around you at DEF CON 33. Here's a behind the scenes interview about what goes into crafting the visual style of a hacker convention.
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The DEF CON conferences have been co-opted by troonery and degeneracy for far too long. 😩

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https://www.seattletimes.com/business/goodbye-165000-tech-jobs-student-coders-seek-work-at-chipotle
Lucas Silva #4903141

Disaster Thread 'Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.'

NY Times - Archive

As companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs.

Growing up near Silicon Valley, Manasi Mishra remembers seeing tech executives on social media urging students to study computer programming.
“The rhetoric was, if you just learned to code, work hard and get a computer science degree, you can get six figures for your starting salary,” Ms. Mishra, now 21, recalls hearing as she grew up in San Ramon, Calif.
Those golden industry promises helped spur Ms...
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Daughter of H-1B now learns first hand the damage H-1B and STEM-OPT have. If she was a non citizen she would have been hired as a OPT visa where the company wouldn't have to pay payroll tax.
Go back to India and take your family with you.
 
Ahriman said:
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The first line undercuts the article's premise unfortunately - asking respondents whether they were getting summoned or knew somebody who did means the same person could be double, triple, etc. counted. And that assumes the sample is representative of all H1B holders.

If H1B approval rates are public records, those would probably be a better metric. Either that or unemployment for domestic Indian IT workers.
 
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RULE 3) DO NOT RELAX BECAUSE OF POSITIVE PROPAGANDA. Pajeets love to use social media to post things to disarm those standing up to their scams. Everyone post or article--be it complaining about Hinduphobia, saying how H1B's and facing possible deportation, how Jeets are being fired, etc--is to be considered a scam. They do this to get their critics to relax and ease their attacks (informing the general public about how dangerous Jeets are to their communities.)

When you see such articles and posts online make sure to DOUBLE your efforts. The public must be made aware of the Jeet-Hindu-Nationalist invasion thats underway in the Western world!

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The problem is that in the huge amount of recent tech layoffs, citizens are disproportionately affected from what I've seen. In some teams, the only people laid off were non-Asian.
Trump says he wants to "reshore" chipmaking. No doubt that means bringing more Asians here to do the work.
I guess all the white people who can't get a tech job because of H1Bs are now free to take over jobs from the deported Mexicans. From working at Apple to picking apples, what a career path.
 
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So basically, no different than many real HR drones. :story:

Made a thread about it.

Ahriman

Business Thread 'AI Hiring Tools Are Ignoring Qualified Candidates, Expert Says'


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Bad Tech​

Companies are increasingly employing artificial intelligence tools to screen potential employees with the aim of streamlining the process and to eliminate any biases. But as the BBC reports, the tools may well be making the hiring process worse by screening out highly-qualified people.

In one instance that exemplifies the problem, a job applicant to a tutoring company called Fullmind, resubmitted a resume after getting...
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