The CEO is going absolutely insane with his cost-cutting.
As we sign many contracts and go for a new funding round, we're laying people off, but we're also spending $200K/year in cloud spend that could be fixed by buying $20K in servers to stick in one of our on-prem racks.
Also, the layoffs are causing critical engineers to get fired and then we're only doing overseas hiring. They're actually not actively terrible, but it's still a very very stressful time to be an American.