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as a current employee, his responses rang very true. Rough week :(

• michaelochurch 13y ago
  To Zynga's credit, they had an honest layoff, with severance and a press release (so peoples' reputations don't get burned). Most tech startups hide a layoff in stack-ranking and so-called "performance improvement plans", which additionally humiliate people on the way out and are used as an excuse not to give severance. I'm not a fan of Zynga-- their games are garbage, and the equity clawback was vicious-- but it sounds like they did the right thing here.
  • mansigandhi 13y ago
    I agree. I was pleasantly surprised.