Snap employees have started joking they work at 'Snapazon' now, as massive layoffs, forced attrition and an Amazon-like metrics culture take over
take place in a few different waves. Prior to the layoffs, Snap managers had been told to put 10% of their teams on performance improvement plans, according to company insiders. Now, in a larger restructuring at the company, Snap's engineering chief and longtime Amazon cloud executive Jerry Hunter, is serving as Snap COO—a sign that the company will continue leaning into the Amazon style.
Snap's abrupt layoffs came as a surprise to many inside the company. Earlier in the year, Snap insisted it was only implementingand said repeatedly it would still grow headcount this year by 10%, a claim many managers relied on. Workers felt the company was going through changes that it would pull through and were not led to believe their jobs were in peril.
"I did not expect to be impacted at all," one former staffer said."They've been stringing people along," another said. Are you a Snap employee or someone with insight to share? Contact Tom Dotan at [email protected] or on Twitter at @cityofthetown. at 949-280-0267, or through Twitter DM at @hayskali. Reach out using a non-work device.
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