I worked at Rational Software when we acquired Pure software. We sold tons of Purify+. The legend of course was the Hastings took the $ he made from selling Purify to Rational to start Netflix. So as a Rational employee, I had a contribution to Netflix's existence... Or so I like to tell myself ;).
Not necessarily. (a) They could be laying off low performers and still looking for backfill some of them. (b) they could be laying off in certain skill areas and hiring in others. (c) One division could be laying off while another is hiring.
- Thinking Fast and Slow (been around for a while - I am just getting to it)
- The 3 Body Problem, Dark Forest, and Death’s End - a SciFi Trilogy by Cixin Liu. A masterpiece. Read them back to back
- Think Again, by Adam Grant