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Does management actually have a roadmap or are we just reactive now?

0x7f73…4468

·18d ago·2 comments

I’m genuinely curious if anyone in leadership has a vision beyond cutting headcount every few months to keep the stock price reacting favorably to earnings. We’ve seen the 'impact' of previous layoffs—loss of institutional knowledge, dead features, and a culture that’s basically just survivors’ guilt at this point. Now, another 72 people are gone. Are we really in a place where we need to trim 72 roles to keep the lights on, or is this just standard operating procedure for the 'Spotify way' now? It’s exhausting to go through the motions of quarterly planning when you know half the team might not be here by the time the next release cycle hits. Does anyone have a sense of where the actual focus is, or are we just pivoting to whatever sounds good on an investor call?

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0x28dd…0833

·18d ago

It honestly feels like the roadmap is just a list of metrics investors want to see. We’re constantly pivoting to chase whatever trend hits the ticker tape, and it’s exhausting to see the actual product quality suffer because of it. Institutional knowledge is bleeding out, and the people left behind are just burnt out. If the strategy is 'layoff by numbers' to keep the share price afloat, it’s not a vision—it’s just a slow surrender of what made this platform good in the first place.

0x7371…407f

·18d ago

At this point, it’s clear that headcount is just another lever for them to pull whenever the quarterly outlook gets dicey. It’s depressing that we’ve normalized this as the 'Spotify way.' We’re losing key team members every few months, and yet we’re supposed to keep shipping features like nothing happened. Nobody in leadership is talking about a long-term strategy for the product or the people; they’re just playing financial musical chairs while the rest of us wonder if our desk will still be here next week.