Unity is reviewing its product portfolio and says layoffs are "likely"
Unity is reviewing its product portfolio and says layoffs are "likely"
This reads like a statement from a vulture capitalist who plans to break up the company and sell the parts to make a quick buck. One would think they would focus on building trust, not giving yet more devs reasons to use a different engine.
Sad thing is, it lets Epic run most of the table now. Their shite business practices and ethics are just ridiculous. To have them leading the whole industry with little competition is a damn shame.
It's all developer's faults. If they only accepted the fair new pricing policy without protesting, this decision could have been avoided /s
"Reducing our office footprint" these ghouls are going to fire people who aren't following the return to office decree because it will be an easy on paper excuse. Also "revenue came in within guidance" so they expected / planned for revenue to be low enough to justify firing even more people? They've already done two other mass firings morale is terrible right now. Lots of the best workers have been quitting to find better work and the drain is noticable. I just need stable insurance for another 6 months then I can leave too, I hope I don't get fucked
Good luck. The market is rough out there.
Thank you, I'm honestly terrified. I spent my whole life so far trying to get into this industry, I finally pull it off in my early 30s and now all this. I spent 10 years roughing it and finally have been able to do things in the last two years like go to the doctor ever. I don't have tech people wealth laying around I've spent so much basically doing damage control for having previously been paycheck to paycheck. I'm only just getting the ball rolling and I'm going to be so fucked if I lose this job.
layoffs for thee and massive bonuses and golden parachutes for me (me being the execs who made the decision to sink the company)
They did it to themselves. No one will trust them not to change the pricing model again.
I think the pricing model was a direct consequence of being in bad shape financially.
But obviously when you shoot yourself in the foot when you are already bleeding, it certainly doesn't help.
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wikipedia says they lost ~ 900m last year (net).
they've been on a non-stop buying spree, the recent ipo, and vultures hold a fair chunk of the company. there's probably more than a little pressure to get the books in the black by 'any means necessary'.
This year's Unity story sums up my discontent with tech nicely. Impressive tech made by extremely talented people, botched by incompetent corporate parasites who care only about securing their millions.
I mean, that's pretty much everything that isn't tech too.
I don't consider growing corn to be all that impressive. The rest holds though.
And the dumpster fire that is Unity continues...
"Look what you made me do to myself!!!"
You don't say?
I don't give a shit what happens to Unity.
Unity, as a business, as a stock investment, as a C-suite and board of directors, is rotting in its casket for all I care. I have committed to never buy game built in Unity whose development started after September this year.
This whole debacle wasn't an engineering problem; it's not the software development staff's fault.