Massive blunder right there. Don't do this.
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2025
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- Tech company gets acquired by massive company for a ridiculous sum of money
- Site never really generated much revenue
- Parent company demands cuts
- lays off workers, ahem sorry, removes redundant positions
- re-org
- gets rid of physical assets by moving to the cloud claiming savings despite it almost always being more expensive and worse than running your own.
- lay off more employees claiming move to the cloud behind schedule and over budget
- blame the economy
- probably something with AI
- hire a more 'global workforce'
- re-org
- RTO mandate to make the highest paid employees leave after they trained their replacements overseas
- voluntary severance package
- another round of layoffs
- re-org
- quarterly report showing highest profits in company history
- worst compensation bumps in company history
My company used to staff in-house help desk, about 90% of which worked remotely full-time. They were outsourced, and a few months later, covid hit. Guess who didn't have a functioning help desk (due to the contractor using crowded call centers) during a time when we were scrambling to get as many people as possible working remotely? I know hindsight is 20/20, but that was a pretty big facepalm.
You forgot profit sharing and bonuses for the C-suite only, then it's carved up and the pension plan is raped to death.
Stack Overflow no longer has any physical datacenters
Do they think cloud services are literally non-corporal?
Has the cloud rug-pull happened yet or are they waiting for some recession to jack up prices?
I mean, that’s what the marketing folks at the hyperscalers would have us believe…
I understand why startups want cloud services. Don’t know why a group that reached the top of the s-curve a decade ago wants to pad Microsoft’s or google’s or Amazon’s profits.
I suppose shard(t)ing, but wouldn’t a CDN be a better fit? Maybe GDPR.
Wait a sec, do we actually know if hyperscalers like M$ and Fuckle are making profit off of that business and won't need to drastically increase prices later on (similar to Netflix, Discord, etc.)?
Not only enshittifying the site itself, I see...
Enshiteifying.
Congrats on the monthly costs i guess? What you pay in sending a guy down to replace a job you will pay 10x in monthly costs.
I can understand a move to cloud infra for a company as worldwide as stackoverflow but I dont think they make the revenue required to support it. They're going to get squeezed by the increasing costs eventually.