Lay offs - Anonymous employee Vercel Employee Review

2.0
6 Jan 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

enjoyed my time at Vercel, decent pay, good benefits and colleagues and the team I worked with were great

Cons

Was laid off with some of my colleagues and it seems to be kept quiet throughout the whole company aside from certain people/teams being told. Not sure why it’s being kept quiet and secret. Didn’t like the way the lay offs happened, no clear answer on exactly why you were laid off and others weren’t - aside from the usual “your role has been terminated” etc. Someone asked one of the senior managements if lay offs were something that may happen and they admitted that it was not something the business needed atm which was an absolute lie as they laid off staff a couple weeks later.

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