{"id":1192862,"date":"2023-10-16T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1192862"},"modified":"2023-10-16T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T16:40:00","slug":"stack-overflow-cuts-28-workforce-as-the-ai-coding-boom-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1192862","title":{"rendered":"Stack Overflow Cuts 28% Workforce as the AI Coding Boom Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coding help forum Stack Overflow is laying off 28 percent of its staff as it struggles toward profitability. From a report: CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar announced today that the company is &#8220;significantly reducing the size of our go-to-market organization,&#8221; as well as &#8220;supporting teams&#8221; and other groups. After the team doubled its employee base last year, Chandrasekar told The Verge&#8217;s Nilay Patel in an interview that about 45 percent of those hires were for its go-to-market sales team, which he said was &#8220;obviously the largest team.&#8221; Prosus acquired Stack Overflow in a $1.8 billion deal in mid-2021.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Stack+Overflow+Cuts+28%25+Workforce+as+the+AI+Coding+Boom+Continues%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F10%2F16%2F1556222%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/twitter_icon_large-599.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F10%2F16%2F1556222%2Fstack-overflow-cuts-28-workforce-as-the-ai-coding-boom-continues%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/facebook_icon_large-299.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/10\/16\/1556222\/stack-overflow-cuts-28-workforce-as-the-ai-coding-boom-continues?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Slashdot &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/10\/16\/1556222\/stack-overflow-cuts-28-workforce-as-the-ai-coding-boom-continues?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stack Overflow Cuts 28% Workforce as the AI Coding Boom Continues<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coding help forum Stack Overflow is laying off 28 percent of its staff as it struggles toward profitability. From a report: CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar announced today that the company is &#8220;significantly reducing the size of our go-to-market organization,&#8221; as well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1192862\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1192863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,110],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-1192862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slashdot","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-slashdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1192863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}