No reason given, no communication, they took my laptop without allowing me to take any private information off of it, and was basically told to gather my things and go home. 4 years with the company and in 5 seconds I was thrown out and escorted from the building. Total shock.
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Fake News. All Twitter offices were closed so how could you be 'escorted out'?
Was it four years of being fair to the other side of the isle, or 4 years of being a woke employee?
I keep NPI, highly confidential information on my work computer. That is private, and not public data. Duh.
Why on earth would you keep private info on a company computer?
This just seems fake to me.
- Surprise? Come on we all knew this was coming right? At least you should have know something was coming.
- Even if just a thought that something might happen, most (dev) would have cleaned laptop and copied off "Backup" of code and design docs to save for later.
- Anyone in Tech (at public companies) should be ready for this at anytime.
Growth / learning opportunity: unless you have executive level contract and better than basic call stock options or vesting, you are just a resource to the company (not a human).
This is the way of the world today. Take care of YOU!!!!
Hopefully you all get a severance, I'm sorry. This happened over and over again when I worked at a big high tech company in the 2000's. I'm not sure if this is your first RIF. Companies usually do it quickly and with very little explanation.
I was asked to help train and transition to five new engineers. They are all from Tesla in the Fremont office!
No more free lattes. See ya Lol
You're team is better off than mine, it seems.
My entire team was sent to Seoul for a Halloween Party on the new company dime.
I got detained at customs, thank goodness.
I'm sorry this happened to you, and I'm sorry you were taken by surprise. Ignore the haters. I have no idea why people would post to your thread with nasty comments. I guess they should be doing that on Twitter now lol.
There are still opportunities in other tech companies and non-tech companies for tech people. You'll land on your feet.
I am so sorry. I hope there is something even better around the corner.
TWTR has lots of "kids".
What kind of d-mb a-s leaves their private information on a corporate laptop. That in and of itself is a reason to be fired. NEVER EVER mix your professional and personal life.
Learn to code, bro.
This is exactly how a well executed layoff should be done; clean/crisp rip the bandaid off. I was a silicon valley sr. director for 30 years and I've layed off a TON of engineers in my day, and there is no "good" way to do it, so this is best, trust me. Also, never ever put personal information on a company laptop - what were you thinking?
What team/department?
policy in SF
RE: "My whole team was just fired"
Welcome to the real world. Don't look at is as being fired, look at it as the company giving you a chance to advance your career ;-)
FYI: The first time I witnessed a layoff as a Jr. Engineer for a major firm (waaaaay back in the day) a person from the HR Dept. - with an armed guard - walked over to the desk, informed the person they were terminated, gave them a standard size cardboard documents box, told them to place their personal belongings in it, subject to search by the guard, had them sign the termination agreement, and them perp-walked out the door to their car. All done in about 15-20 minutes.
The only difference now is with my current company there's no armed guard, you're only allowed a couple of personal items (thus, no box required), and if you're working from home you won't even know you've been canned until you can't access the company website.
Good luck.
Meanwhile, in the Metaverse...
https://www.thelayoff.com/facebook
And Amazon...
https://www.thelayoff.com/amazon-com
You're truly surprised? Musk has been very clear of his intent to downsize staff.
What team/department? Any other colleagues? Location?
I heard about SE this morning.