alt Hacker NewsIf they are paying them 6-month severances like Block did, this means they are effectively saying 1,600 people for 6-months wouldn't have fixed JIRA's usability and performance, which if they could have done like many have been begging, they'd would probably make more money long-term than this firing would save.
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If Atlassian hasn't fixed Jira's lack of usability by now, they won't in the next six months or six years.
A lot of problems (I’d say the majority in tech) can be solved faster and better by 100 people than 1600.
I mean probably not. It's not 1,400 hardcore engineers and 200 Jony Ives being let go, it's a mix of everyone including randoms like HR and the person who orders the office coffee. Business is not good.
Okay I just wrote an "it's not, it's..." organically, is this the zeitgeist or what.
I wholeheartedly believe that they could not have fixed it with 9,600 people months of work. They haven’t been able to fix it with many multiples of that.