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Practical effects of the October 2023 layoff
I hope that by now you’ve all had a chance to read and digest the announcement and the blog post about today’s layoff.
This was not an easy decision to make, nor is this an easy conversation to have. ...
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Community notice: October 2023 layoff announcement [duplicate]
I’d like to call your attention to today’s blog post from Prashanth. Unfortunately, we’ve made the difficult decision to reduce our headcount by roughly 28%. There are more details at the blog, and I ...
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May 2023 layoff impacting 58 SO/SE staff
A few minutes ago, CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar posted a note to our blog to share the news that Stack Overflow has made the difficult decision to reduce our workforce by 58 people, or about 10% of our ...
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Is Stack Exchange going to limit content related to work about open-source code or statistical data likely to be under a ban in the United States?
The Office of Foreign Assets Control which is the agency for managing sanctions, took sanctions not only against the organisation of an open source project, but made it broad enough to target the open ...
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The Community Teams @ Stack Exchange and how we work together
I wanted to share with you about who the people that work on our Community are, and how we are organized. For context, I (Teresa Dietrich) am the head of Product, Community, Design and Engineering, a ...
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Post-mortem or root cause analysis of the recent issues (late 2019-early 2020)
Teresa Dietrich recently posted regarding her and the company's efforts to restore community trust and repair the recent unpleasant issues.
Now that the company is making at least some meaningful ...
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Social media disclaimer policy for SE Staff
The most recent SE incident (as well as several others earlier) was largely inflated by the interaction of SE/SE Staff with the press and some social media interactions (tweets/re-tweets, in ...
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Will we hear from the Director of Public Q&A regarding current events?
As one of the primary participants in the current drama theatre that is MSE, will the Director of Public Q&A direct her efforts to the public Q&A (not Twitter)?
I hold hope that if / when she ...
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Does Stack Exchange have a policy of forcing its employees into Mandatory Arbitration over Sexual Harassment claims?
I was just reading this article released today by the Intercept
GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK ENDED MANDATORY ARBITRATION FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT CLAIMS. WILL WORKERS OUTSIDE THE TECH INDUSTRY BENEFIT?
And, ...
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What happened with the Stack Overflow layoffs (2017-11-02)?
I’m curious as to why Stack Exchange laid off 20% of its staff, and
crucially why there is a discrepancy between the PR statement “we cut sales
and marketing” and the apparent reality of lots of ...
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What are the specific hours of the day that remote Stack Overflow staff work?
How are the different time zones of remote team members at Stack Overflow accounted for?
In a recent interview Joel Spolsky mentions that remote work is best done within similar time zones to allow ...
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Stack Exchange ping pong and pool rooms
So I was creepin around the site and I saw two interesting pictures that I have questions about. http://careers.stackoverflow.com/company/stack-exchange
Which current SE employee is the best at ping ...
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