The management at this company is pretty awful. During the whole time I worked there, it never seemed like they totally understood the direction of their product. Some terrible decisions made by management led to 20% of MindTouch employees being laid off. The worst part was that they tried to play it off like it was all because of pressure from the company's investors and didn't take ownership of their own failures. As for the engineering side specifically, it was pretty obvious to everyone working there that the CTO had an extreme bias toward API/C# developers at the expense of the rest of the engineering department. It is not surprising then that none of the API developers were laid off. Even worse, two new engineers were hired right before the huge layoffs happened. If you knew that you were going to have to cut expenses, why in the world would you hire two new engineers instead of trying to keep the existing MindTouch employees? The whole situation was incredibly frustrating and just sad. I actually heard that one of the new hires quit shortly after this, which was probably a smart move on his part.
