Mass Layoffs at Microsoft-owned GitHub (About 80 Percent of the Staff in India Laid Off)
THE Times of India has this new article, which isn't even much of an article, let alone an interview.
Knowing that Microsoft was shutting down entire offices of GitHub as part of several waves of mass layoffs, the publisher decided to speak to the CEO. It's a weird article, as the article is about 80% copypasta, preceded by:
Dohmke spoke to the Economic Times, discussing the challenging nature of the decision due to economic factors impacting specific product areas within the Indian team.
That sounds promising, but it is low-quality reporting that contains no analysis and mostly parrots one single sociopath from Microsoft. He has all sorts of self-promotional things to say (and blaming "Hey Hi"), but the fact remains, as the headline puts it, "the company laying off 80% of its employees in India"...
It's not just in India. They did the same in the West, including the birthplace of the company. GitHub is financially not viable; one might say that it is in trouble, more so when the lifeline is cut as the losses cannot be tolerated anymore (GitHub never managed to make money).
So the writings are on the wall. If you value your code and care about its long-term availability/accessibility (as in, public access to the code), do not upload any code to GitHub and try to move existing code, if any, out of there. It's a garbage dump in the making. It's already being slashed. █
