Cisco employee here, this is spot on.

I was at a startup they acquired ~4 years ago, by now it's just about milked completely dry.

Even though our product is close to industry-leading, they laid off our product manager, then another one, the QA team, and half of the devs. Unsurprisingly the product is falling apart.

It's not a company that attempts to produce value, as with so many others the product is the stock price.

The MBAs are showing some kind of savings on a spreadsheet somewhere though, so I suppose all the sacrifices are worth it.

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downrightmike 2 days ago | parent [-]

That's what MBAs did to Intel too

	▲	neuroelectron 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		American tech sector is being destroyed so it can be replaced by _____ and their surveillance state. It's death by a thousand cuts, labor supply, education, taxes, regulation, finance, dependencies, versioning, operating systems, etc. all are being made obfuscated, complex and frustrating to slow advancement and ultimately unstable and impossible to maintain. Most of our tech stack already has surveillance built in and that is already being co-opted and we're well on our way of having it outsourced to a foreign state.
	▲	iwontberude 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		and couldn't even get the stock to be worth anything