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It's PR to cover management failure due to "me too", which reached ridiculous levels in the last 5 years.


I don't see what it has to do with "me too"

Take block:

AFAICT, it was just really badly managed. A long time ago it got about as much share of its main market as it was going to get. They took the cash flow from that and hired a bunch more engineers to try to break into adjacent markets, and failed, and failed and failed.

Now they are just retreating to the steady income from their core business


Pretty sure by putting "me too" in quotes and not saying #MeToo, what they're talking about is really FOMO. The companies are performing layoffs because of the trend


Oh, probably


As previous commenter said “me too” in the (lack of) leadership vein, not the sexual harassment tag.


You are being downvoted because of the 'me too', but think you are refering to companies copying other companies (Amazon hires 10k? We hire 10k! Google fires 5k? we fire 5k) and not the 'me too' movement about sexual assault/harrassement.


People are downvoting because they think is "that" me too. What op meant is all the copycat management. "They use roflcopter.js? Then we must. They use AI? Then we must. They hire/fire 9070 people? Then we must."


I don't really see any relevance to "me too". Far more likely it's to cover from insane overhearing in the pandemic era, and no one wants to admit they overdid it.


How is this in any way related to me too? How is that what to took from this? I implore you to think critically.


I would guess the opposite, that anti-woke statements from management is a big red flag correlating with poor company performance




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