Cyanogen reportedly slashing almost 20 percent entire workforce
CTO Steve Kondik said to be conducting layoffs personally
Cyanogen's small office in India reportedly being shut down
Cyanogen Inc., the company that once wanted to take Android away from
Google, is said to be falling apart. Multiple reports suggest that the
company is undergoing a major revamp and cutting jobs.
According
to a report by Android Police, the company is conducting layoff where it
is asking roughly 30 out of the 136 people to leave - that's about 20
percent of entire workforce. The report says that the layoffs are being
conducted by Steve Kondik, the Co-Founder and CTO of Cyanogen. The
biggest impact of the layoffs has been on the team behind the Cyanogen
OS commercial distribution, and
not those involved with the CyanogenMod project.
The report adds, "The systems and QA teams in Palo Alto and Seattle have been
heavily cut, with Cyanogen's smaller offices in Lisbon and India
reportedly being essentially gutted." Notably, the community driven
Cyanogen has also not spared community support members as they were
allegedly also removed. There are rumours that Cyanogen is looking to
revamp its services and once of the sources hinted that the company may
be involved in a "pivot to apps." As of now, there is no word how the
company will move to the new strategy but we can expect hear more from
Cyanogen soon.
Re/code in a separate report
points out that Cyanogen will be working on the new strategy under the
supervision of former Facebook employee Lior Tal, who has joined the
company as Chief Operating Officer. The report adds that several top
executives have also moved out from the company in last few weeks.
The
sudden layoffs hint that Cyanogen despite having an eventful 2015 where
the company announced rebranding alongside raising $80 million (approximately Rs. 497 crores) in
funding has not been able to show results. The company also managed to strike a deal to get Microsoft's apps
preloaded on Cyanogen OS-based devices.
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