Does employment feel safer at smaller companies?
There have been many very large layoffs announced recently at large companies. Much of the HN comments on these note over-hiring during better economic times. I’m wondering, have smaller employers, who presumably haven’t added headcount as much as larger employers, been laying of as well? Does employment feel more secure there?
Small companies get acquired when money is cheap; the acquirer generally doesn't want the programmers just the income stream so they keep a skeleton crew around until they can hand it off to their in-house team.
I used to work for a non tech company of around three or four hundred people that nonetheless had about twenty software engineers. I say “used to” because engineering got cut by 80% last quarter.
no, what happens with small companies is they go bust without notice, or their showing signs theyll go bust, or the owners signal it might go bust for whatever reason...so no, it never feels safe working in a small company