I know this is a very tired topic, but does anyone have any good blog posts or articles about "what exactly is it that you all do?" Yelp having 6000 employees. I'm not surprised, I'm not mad. I just want to understand.
> Today we will let 1,000 of our colleagues go and furlough approximately 1,100 more, while reducing hours for others. Your department leaders will be in touch this morning to discuss how this affects you individually, and letters with more details and FAQs will follow this afternoon.<p>Honest question - is it normal to announce layoffs publicly before telling the affected employees? I guess I can understand it from a PR perspective, but it must be awful to read that and sit around waiting to find out if you're affected.
A company like yelp making 1 billion revenue per year, I'd except they could have their employees back, for at least a couple months, maybe furlough them with 80% of their salaries...
While job losses will pile further misery on the economy, I hope that means there are now fewer ad sales people trying to shake down local businesses so that they offer Yelp protection money to keep their ratings positive.<p>Companies like this always start with a noble purpose, before the pressure to monetize causes them to ruin what was once a valuable service.
Someone I work with from another company just messaged me that they are being furloughed for a couple of months. I wonder how many of these furloughs are going to end up in layoffs.
With all these lays off it’s going harder to find a job and companies probably try to force pay cuts for the roles they are hiring because of it. Bad time to be jobless; sadly I am in this situation:(
Wait Yelp has 6000 employees? They haven’t changed their site in a decade! What percentage of that is engineering? Seriously, I thought they have maybe 1000 at best.
Yelp basically replaced the Yellow pages and Zagat with a bit of the BBB thrown in for good measure. Its model is to sell listing services to businesses. I am guessing it is a sales heavy org.
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Can't say this is really a bad thing, Yelp has had blackmail and predatory business practices a long time and should be shutdown on that alone. It's amazing to me they haven't been sued into oblivion yet.