Evernote just slashed 54 jobs, or 15 percent of its workforce
Evernote has almost 500 employees?  How is that even possible?  There must be at least 350 product managers.  (Ok, that was a joke, but if you look at all their employees on linkedin like 2&#x2F;3 have job titles that are in the &#x27;overhead&#x27; bucket.  Tons of &#x27;People Ops&#x27;, &#x27;Brand and Communications&#x27;, &#x27;Marketing Manager&#x27;, &#x27;Product Designer&#x27;, &#x27;Producer&#x27;.  37 have a job title that includes &#x27;marketing&#x27;. 
391 appear to be non-engineering titles, out of 538 employees in the linkedin results.  They have full time Agile coaches!!)<p>500+ employees with an annual revenue estimated to be below $10MM.  That&#x27;s $20k of <i>revenue</i> per employee!  I mean I can just imagine what it&#x27;s like there, insane meetings about metrics where 15 marketing managers show the powerpoint slides they spent the last week emailing back and forth to highlight the 2% growth last quarter, while they need to grow by 2000% in the next 48 months just to stay alive.  Then in 3 months they have the same meeting.<p>Evernote has been severely mismanaged (I&#x27;ve been saying this since 2012, links below).  I wonder how they feel about all the VC money they spent developing ports for WebOS, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4855689" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4855689</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10859391" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10859391</a>