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vineyardmike on Feb 9, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

But what’s odd is Microsoft owns GitHub and already did a massive(ish) layoff. Why the separate ones?

bjtitus on Feb 9, 2023 [–]

Doesn't seem too odd. I believe LinkedIn wasn't affected by Microsoft's layoffs either.

Here's an article describing how LinkedIn and GitHub are both managed separately from Microsoft: https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/26/four-years-after-being-acq...

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