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Ask HN: Who is firing? (January 2017)

32 points by who_is_firing ↗ HN
Post companies that are having layoffs, mass firings, unusual churn, etc. If possible, please identify the company or as much specifics so you can help others in the community.

Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13081362

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es-axiom
^ _ ^ guess no one's getting fired
chaosagent
Cyanogen Inc.

They (used to) make a custom Android distribution for manufacturers, CyanogenOS. They grew out of an open source project, CyanogenMOD, but their business people apparently could not find a good way to monetize a phone OS, so most of not all of their developers (30 out of 130 employeed) were apparently laid off or quit. They have apparently turned to providing system-level apps, and a Reddit user who claims to have been a former employee says that they plan to create a Google Now competitor by mining data from 3rd party apps.

The company has completely withdrawn support from the open source OS it grew out of, but some of its developers will continue its development under the brand LineageOS.

Sources: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/07/report-cyanogen-inc-t... https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5k55vo/the_dea...