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Pinterest sacks workers for creating tool to track job cuts
Pinterest fired two engineers for creating scripts that accessed confidential layoff data, violating company policy and privacy as part of a 15% workforce reduction, the company said.
- On Friday, Pinterest dismissed two engineers who built an internal tool to track which workers lost their jobs shortly after the layoff announcement.
- Employee questions about which teams were hit prompted engineers to quantify layoffs after Pinterest's Jan. 27 announcement of cutting less than 15% of the workforce.
- The tracking tool worked by creating alerts when employee accounts were deactivated; two engineers wrote custom scripts improperly accessing confidential company information, a company spokesperson said.
- Bill Ready defended the moves at an all‑hands meeting, saying, `Healthy debate and dissent are expected, that's how we make our decisions`, and citing privacy and disclosure policy to withhold detailed layoff information.
- Amid sweeping tech cuts, investors worry OpenAI and Google chatbots could steal users and ad dollars from Pinterest, whose shares are down 20% so far this year after Amazon laid off about 16,000 last week.
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