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Little Otter recently laid off more than half of their product team. That's par for a startup these days, but how they went about the layoffs left an awful taste in my mouth. In the middle of a hiring effort, without informing the hiring manager the recruiters started telling candidates that they were no longer hiring. The hiring manager and team were never given an explanation for why they froze hiring. In the weeks leading up to the layoffs, leadership skipped several regular syncs with the product team, and ignored a bunch of slack messages. As for the layoffs, the HR rep set up 15 minute meetings with everyone on the product team, announced at an all-hands that they wanted to meet everyone on the product team, and then laid people off during these meetings. They also lied to the employees left on the product team by telling them that some employees chose to leave.