Trang Le

Just looks like they cut positions deemed unnecessary and focus more on game development right now. If they lay off so many people and still be functioning, there must have been a lot of inefficiencies

They were hiring literally some of the same positions they cut.

that's the point where they realized the laid off too many? i get it though, mid-level leaders see more than higher ups do but when higher ups issue directives, it's gotta be executed on, and then when those directives turn out to be wrong, now they gotta fix the overcorrection

Starting salary is lower than the salary of someone who has been there for a while so it's "saving money" if you refill a position with someone fresh.

They still could have cut salary instead of laying off 900 people immediately tho

Pay cuts are not really a great option. It destroys satisfaction of employees. Plus starting salary is lower

additionally, looking at hiring politics within blizzard in the months before, we know for a fact that leading positions were posted with huge signing bonuses, several millions even. There are few things that can justify these layoffs to this day to the public in my opinion.

I mean that's the point isn't it, they cut tenured employees to get new people who were fresh-faced and willing to work for less so that their "saving" is higher which leads to their bonuses being higher? I never said it was good but that's what they did