Hacker News: headintheskyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=headintheskyHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 08 May 2026 13:38:57 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by headinthesky in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"]]>The pasture is pretty crowded and full of shit. But thanks, friend. I appreciate it

]]>Fri, 08 May 2026 05:20:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058898headintheskyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058898https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058898<![CDATA[New comment by headinthesky in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"]]>I really don't know. My org now has 40+ engineers with 2 managers. Down from 6. I really don't know how they will do it. Each one of us were handling critical shit, and desperately needed more engineers. PMs made things run and they got hit even harder

No one had any idea. My director got the same email

]]>Fri, 08 May 2026 01:02:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057205headintheskyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057205https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057205<![CDATA[New comment by headinthesky in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"]]>The bottleneck is never code

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 22:57:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056192headintheskyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056192https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056192<![CDATA[New comment by headinthesky in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"]]>I know of 4 teams in Cloudflare One, who lost EMs, PMs and engineers in really critical connectivity systems. Our list of things we need to do is years long. Many of those are needed for reliability and scaling.

They quietly stopped hiring months ago and I figured things were not good. My mistake was thinking my group would be a little safer being profit drivers and big deals...

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 22:55:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056174headintheskyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056174https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056174<![CDATA[New comment by headinthesky in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"]]>Absolutely. My hope is selfish - the market is awful

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 22:52:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056139headintheskyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056139https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056139<![CDATA[New comment by headinthesky in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"]]>This really sucks. I loved this job. I'm an EM and I was trying to hire more people because we're so busy with everything we needed to do. My teams products are something like 95% profit.

Really going to miss my team, they were wonderful to work with. Secretly hoping they'll have to rehire.

I refuse to believe it was about AI. Coming from the inside, the bottleneck was never code. Seeing who is being laid off, especially on my team, it's the people who make things run.

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 21:32:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055375headintheskyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055375https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055375