GitHub: In India, the entire engineering staff of the Microsoft-owned open-source developer portal GitHub has been fired, according to a TechCrunch story. Almost 100 employees have been impacted, according to a person familiar with the situation who was quoted in the paper. It claims that on Tuesday, the firm notified the staff of the job loss. This comes after GitHub revealed in February that 10% of its staff would be let go during this fiscal year. Before the announcement of the layoffs, GitHub employed roughly 3,000 employees. Sustained growth is crucial for every firm, according to GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke in a note to staff members.
GitHub’s staff to be reduced by as much as 10% through the end of FY23
“We currently have 100 million developers living here, and we must transition to the developer-first engineering system of the future. In order to assist our clients on a daily basis, we must continue to help them grow and prosper with GitHub, hasten and make their transition to the cloud simple “the CEO penned. “Unfortunately, these changes will cause GitHub’s staff to be reduced by as much as 10% through the end of FY23. I still have the hiring freeze that I stated on January 18 “Said he.
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Open-source development platform has over 100 million users worldwide
The initial tweet on the development was sent by tech journalist Gergely Orosz, who monitors global tech layoffs, particularly in the engineering/developer teams. According to a GitHub spokeswoman, “workforce cutbacks were implemented today” as part of the reorganisation plan disclosed in February. The corporate spokesman explained that it was part of difficult but essential decisions and realignments to both safeguard the short-term health of our business and enable us the capacity to invest in our long-term plan moving forward.” In India, where it already has over 10 million developers as users, the open-source development platform has over 100 million users worldwide. Behind the United States, India currently boasts the second-largest developer community on GitHub.
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