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No. It's a small company ~400 employees in total, including contractors. The CEO is a very technical guy. The average tenure of the employees let go was ~8 years.

Layoffs are a difficult thing for employees and their managers. I have seen people (one was a VP of Engineering) escorted out of the building, sent in a cab to home along with a security guard (this was in India), not allowed access to computer or talk with other employees. But, recently have had a very different experience. The current company I work for announced 30% layoffs. The list was made public within one hour of announcement. The CEO detailed the process of selecting people. The severance was very generous (3-6 months pay) along with health and other benefits. The impacted employees were allowed to keep the laptop and any other assets they took from the company. They even paid the same severance to contractors.

After the announcement, the laid off employees were given a few days in the company to allow them to say good byes. I love the CEOs comment on this ' I trusted them yesterday, I trust them today'. This was by far the kindest way of laying off employees imo. People were treated with dignity and respect.

Two bad experiences with Uber support - I don't use them unless there is no other option. I have an Uber account with my email id(gmail) with a '.' in it. It so happened that someone else created a driver account with the same email-id without the '.' in it. I am not sure how that account got verified by Uber, I never clicked any link to verify that account. So I keep getting emails of that driver's account, tried talking to an Uber support person, they don't understand the problem with '.' and simply shut me out saying if this is not your account we are not talking to you about it.

Happy to read VAX/VMS here :-) - my first project as a college fresher was migrating critical data from VAX/VMS ISAM files (written using Fortran code) to Digital Unix. The days when these two machine's did not talk to each other. Learnt dd, tape drive record limiter issues, all data was floating point so issues with binary compatibility etc. One of the best accomplishments in my career.

I worked on Vax/VMS about 19 years back. Their documentation was the best. There was a mailing list of vax users, one of the best I have ever been a part of . The people were extremely helpful for a newbie like me. Part of the old internet that is dead now .

We used it at Yahoo! for detecting misbehaving ads . I remember it as a one man shop, looks like they sold it to Sophos .

I was at Y! at the same time , I witnesssed so many managers gaming the review system . So many funny , and some sad stories from that time.