{"id":15221,"date":"2011-06-25T15:09:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T13:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=15221"},"modified":"2011-06-25T15:09:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T13:09:46","slug":"unstable-company-of-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/25\/unstable-company-of-skype\/","title":{"rendered":"Unstable company of Skype"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>While reading <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2011\/06\/24\/skypes-latest-stock-option-mess-how-low-can-skype-go\/\">this article at GigaOm<\/a> about the latest adventures of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\">Skype<\/a>, I came across this quote by <a href=\"http:\/\/framethink.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/24\/how-employees-get-screwed-in-private-equity-deals\/\">Yee Lee<\/a>, a former employee of Skype:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You can agree or disagree with the practice of re-organization, but I personally had never been part of a restructuring that ran so deep in a company. \u00a0During the year I was at Skype, the company:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>lost a CEO<\/li>\n<li>hired and fired a CTO<\/li>\n<li>hired and fired a CFO<\/li>\n<li>gained a CEO, CMO, CIO, and CDO<\/li>\n<li>created an entirely new product development org structure<\/li>\n<li>eliminated every Project Manager role<\/li>\n<li>fired, re-interviewed, \u00a0and re-hired Product Managers<\/li>\n<li>created a two new business units<\/li>\n<li>combined two business units into one<\/li>\n<li>dissolved one business unit<\/li>\n<li>opened a new office and hired several hundred people<\/li>\n<li>the list goes on\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I mean, these are crazy changes for any company to go through over the course of years. \u00a0To have that all happen within a short number of months was staggering.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Staggering indeed.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>While reading this article at GigaOm about the latest adventures of Skype, I came across this quote by Yee Lee, a former employee of Skype: You can agree or disagree with the practice of re-organization, but I personally had never been part of a restructuring that ran so deep in a company. \u00a0During the year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/25\/unstable-company-of-skype\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unstable company of Skype<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[1968,580,1035],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-15221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-business","tag-management","tag-skype"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"While reading this article at GigaOm about the latest adventures of Skype, I came across this quote by Yee Lee, a former employee of Skype: You can agree or disagree with the practice of re-organization, but I personally had never been part of a restructuring that ran so deep in a company. 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