• Amju Wolf@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    Holy fucking shit they fired 830 employees. Considering what Bandcamp has done (nothing for years despite being pretty terrible UX-wise) and how simple it is, why the fuck did they originally have 1600+ employees?

    A startup with < 50 people could make it work. They don’t need hundreds of employees. Lay off more and actually focus on development FFS.

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      1 year ago

      However, most of the employees they laid off are those in charge of the Bandcamp blog, which is full of good articles and music recommendations. I think it’s the best editorial team. Bandcamp really needs them if they want to keep the quality.

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        1 year ago

        It’s sad but how critical are those people / how many do they need? I didn’t even know Bandcamp had a blog. I use it in a very simple way: I find music I want to own somewhere, check out if it’s on Bandcamp, if it is, I buy it and download it to my library. If not, I have one other place to get it (a “local” eshop that also sells music for download) and then it is the high seas.

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      1 year ago

      No, the article says that Epic Games “laid off 16% of its [Epic Games’] workforce, or 830 employees”.

      I believe Bandcamp was ~120 people total – so 60 laid off.

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        1 year ago

        Ahh my bad, can’t read apparently. That amount of employees sounds way more reasonable, even if I feel like they weren’t doing much.

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          1 year ago

          Just think of half of your company getting laid off, that’s going to be noticable regardless of the total number of employees.

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            1 year ago

            Oh yeah no question about that. My point was just that I don’t understand why you’d need so many people for such a fairly simple project - with such a narrow scope; but that’s moot since they didn’t have that many people after all.

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      1 year ago

      From a technical standpoint, sure.

      But there’s a large amount of conversations that happens with Studios and Artists to make sure that the fees are negotiated properly. Sometimes large partners have a singular manager for their coverage. That could always balloon the org size.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I can see how half of their workforce (which was apparently 120 people, I can’t read) could be just people who negotiate the deals and such. Best of luck to everyone.