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Comment by rubymancer

Cisco employee here, this is spot on.

I was at a startup they acquired ~4 years ago, by now it's just about milked completely dry.

Even though our product is close to industry-leading, they laid off our product manager, then another one, the QA team, and half of the devs. Unsurprisingly the product is falling apart.

It's not a company that attempts to produce value, as with so many others the product is the stock price.

The MBAs are showing some kind of savings on a spreadsheet somewhere though, so I suppose all the sacrifices are worth it.

parent rubymancer 1 year ago

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