• Tech company gets acquired by massive company for a ridiculous sum of money
• Site never really generated much revenue
• Parent company demands cuts
• lays off workers, ahem sorry, removes redundant positions
• re-org
• gets rid of physical assets by moving to the cloud claiming savings despite it almost always being more expensive and worse than running your own.
• lay off more employees claiming move to the cloud behind schedule and over budget
• blame the economy
• probably something with AI
• hire a more 'global workforce'
• re-org
• RTO mandate to make the highest paid employees leave after they trained their replacements overseas
• voluntary severance package
• another round of layoffs
• re-org
• quarterly report showing highest profits in company history
• worst compensation bumps in company history

Stack Overflow no longer has any physical datacenters

Do they think cloud services are literally non-corporal?

Has the cloud rug-pull happened yet or are they waiting for some recession to jack up prices?

Congrats on the monthly costs i guess? What you pay in sending a guy down to replace a job you will pay 10x in monthly costs.

I can understand a move to cloud infra for a company as worldwide as stackoverflow but I dont think they make the revenue required to support it. They're going to get squeezed by the increasing costs eventually.

Massive blunder right there. Don't do this.