Livejournal matters

[winter]

However I may personally feel about the LiveJournal staff layoffs, there's an official statement about them now.

Most of LiveJournal revenue is in rubles. Their labour costs were in USD. Economically, it's a textbook move, especially since they already have a Russian technical and product development team - who are paid less.

Best of luck to everyone involved, especially those who got the bad news :(

Comments

[winter]

All in all, I think Russia's got a somewhat different work culture. Mind you, my experience is second-hand, but SUP only has a few projects and their people have been coding LJ-code for over two years now. They've introduced some features for Russian users, and generally seem to more-or-less have their act together enough to survive, for now.

[sukeban.livejournal.com]

It depends on whether they decide to cut more costs and replace the expensive, experienced programmers with cheaper codemonkeys.

I'm managing servers for [big automaker] and [American human resources outsourcing company], and they're also cutting costs and undermanning teams like crazy, so I'm not that optimistic about this kind of thing. Luckily my job isn't endangered, but our workload is very likely going to grow a lot in the near future for the same pay...

[winter]

*sighs* Don't get me started on my current situation. I'm not in danger either, but going through calming pills like candy.