Engagement in Microsoft GitHub Falls, Expect More Layoffs and Office Closures
IN 2020 Microsoft accidentally admitted that after it had taken over GitHub the number of new projects/accounts fell (2019). They published a graph that showed this. Years later GitHub had several waves of mass layoffs (even entire teams!) and offices of GitHub were being permanently shut down. That's all in the public record. It wasn't about "outsourcing to India" or anything like that because many GitHub layoffs were in India, with NDAs misused to hide what was happening. In other words, Microsoft had already attempted to cut costs by outsourcing to India but still could not "afford" to pay the salaries. There were several waves of mass layoffs. GitHub was rapidly shrinking.
In the past few months we kept seeing GitHub traffic falling and December data was released by SimilarWeb less than a day ago, so now we can see this problem persists.
It has just been revealed that Microsoft has mass layoffs on the way (ahead of the fake "results"; it'll try to impress investors with "cost-cutting" and maybe say the layoffs are "b/coz hey hi innovation").
Considering the fact that NDAs are misused inside GitHub to keep the layoffs secret (some media disclosed the existence of these NDAs over a year ago) we might not know to what extent - if any - GitHub is impacted. Maybe it'll become an "open secret" if some rebellious whistleblower contacts us.
We did have GitHub whistleblowers in the past.
GitHub is just a dumpster fire of GPL violations. It's run by corrupt and violent people. Don't be surprised some people are found dead in their own homes [1, 2]. █