DocuSign to lay off 6% of workforce, or about 440 jobs::DocuSign announced Tuesday it will cut 6% of its workforce as part of a restructuring plan

  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I mean, I could see them having a few hundred employees total at DocuSign, but holy crap! What do they all do?

    There are infinitely more complex pieces of software out there with less than a tenth of the number of employees.

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      10 months ago

      They need to employ a small army of handwringing analysts to verify your terrible trackpad and touch screen signatures.

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      10 months ago

      I used to work at DS and there was definitely overhiring done during the early pandemic when the stock price was going up. At least three people I know were let go in this round and they were in technical teams, which was surprising.

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      10 months ago

      I’m no fan of these layoffs, but a company like Docusign having over 7k employees is mind blowing to me. They could probably GET BY with 440 employees and then outsourcing customer service entirely.

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    10 months ago

    Our account manager just tried to wrangle us into 3x as many licenses as we needed. I looked at the numbers and there wasn’t any usage. I think they logged in to sign something over a year ago and that auto-consumed a license.

    Spent waaay too much time trying to get them to come up with the right number.

    I think their business model is to get as many people licensed as possible even if they aren’t using the product. The steps you need to go through to release a license are odd.

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      10 months ago

      They wanted $30k for like 6k envelopes a year for my company. With Conga Sign, it was less than $5k for UNLIMITED. They didn’t adjust pricing with competition. They need to shrink or go extinct.

  • OutrageousUmpire@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I need to just filter out layoff news. All these tech layoffs really bug me. Hope we see some startups take off filled with these laid off workers.