Just like any other acquisition. All the heads from the acquired company will be forced to resign or will be replaced.

It's clear Disney Hotstar leadership is out for toss and JioCinema leadership will take over but what about mid tier and vottom employees?

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One of my friends is with Jiocinema. For now nothing is clear from the leadership team. Most probably the team will merge and some low priority projects will be picked to develop new features.

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Most of the JioCinema (or overall Jio's streaming leadership) had been poached from Star since '21. It'll be more like a dejavu for them.

Waiting for Hotstar to also make it possible to watchlist something only once we play it.  
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Any idea what will happen to employees in both companies? Who will remain and who will go? Already seeing big heads resigning on both companies.

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Disney Hotstar head Sajith resigns

Disney Hotstar head Sajith resigns- Grapevine

- **Sajith Sivanandan**, head of Disney's Hotstar in India, has resigned amid the ongoing integration with Reliance's media assets.
- His departure follows the decision to consolidate all live sports streaming on the **Disney+ Hotstar** platform.
- The move marks a significant leadership change as Disney and Reliance work to integrate their **$8.5 Bn merged media operations**.
- Sivanandan had a 15-year tenure at Google before spending over two years at Disney+ Hotstar.
- The merger will create India's largest entertainment company, potentially reaching over **750 Mn users**.

Source: [Inc42](https://inc42.com/buzz/disney-hotstar-head-sajith-sivanandan-resigns/)

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A quick search on LinkedIn shows there are so many senior leaders for product management at Hotstar. Feels like even more than engineers. What are they building that they need so many senior folks. Also they are still hiring! With Reliance takeover on the cards, I wonder if there are massive layoffs coming up. I hope not.

Why does Hotstar need so many PMs?

Any hotstar peeps here? So what after the merger?!

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Just wanted to give some updates now that it has been 1 month since the last post

1) Senior Leadership from Tech (3) , a senior director from Product , Finance Head have all resigned. Strategy team has been dissolved. 
2) There are more people in the pipeline and will get more clarity by month end.
3) Everyone over the CTC of 60 lakh has been asked about the revenue that they bring in and based on that, their position is being reconsidered.
4) All contract workers have been terminated. Interns have been told that they won't be receiving PPOs.
5) Senior Management Has been asked to take 20% paycuts. 
6) Even at Junior level, people have been asked to take pay cuts or resign.
7) Lots of tools used in tech are being removed and AWS subscription has also been revised.


Meanwhile HRs have been celebrating on slack channels that Yubi has been ranked in Top 25 companies for career development :/

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Hi , this post is intended to be a disclaimer to anyone who is planning to join Yubi. A lot of things are happening here that show some signs of an impending layoff

1) Several senior folks in tech and product have quit. Also there is no replacement hiring planned for them. Several projects are also getting shelved as a result.

2) there were several open roles a few weeks back and almost all of them are on hold as of now across all depts( tech , business , ops)

3) rampant cost cutting. The lunch options have been reduced to just 1 dal , 1 veg , rice and chapati.  Snacks have been removed too.


Because of several folks quitting in less than 6 months and no replacement hiring , load has increased tremendously on existing members who are themselves trying to leave. 

People have serious doubts on whether any hike or bonus will be given or not this year.

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