<story><title>Apollo Layoffs</title><url>https://www.apollographql.com/blog/announcement/ceo-geoff-schmidts-message-to-apollo-employees/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nbar1</author><text>$300 is incredibly reasonable since it&amp;#x27;s more than $0.</text></item><item><author>lfittl</author><text>The &amp;quot;$300 mental health&amp;quot; seems odd - for any kind of counseling&amp;#x2F;therapy&amp;#x2F;etc sessions this is a drop in the bucket in terms of cost.&lt;p&gt;It will easily cost 10x to work with a mental health professional (and insurance companies sadly pay a very small amount of it). So why add this to an otherwise reasonable package?</text></item><item><author>jackson1442</author><text>Layoffs are going to suck regardless, but this is one of the best severance packages I&amp;#x27;ve seen in this wave:&lt;p&gt;* 15 weeks base pay + 1 week per year of employment&lt;p&gt;* 6 months COBRA + $300 mental health&lt;p&gt;* no 1-yr cliff, options can be exercised thru next year&lt;p&gt;* you can keep all your equipment</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brookst</author><text>I think this is a case of small help coming across as worse than no help, even though rationally that&amp;#x27;s not true. Like if I ask you to write a quick script that&amp;#x27;ll take a half hour... offering you $5 may be worse than just asking it as a favor.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure their heart is in the right place and offering mental health coverage is a good thing, it&amp;#x27;s just the number causes a double-take.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apollo Layoffs</title><url>https://www.apollographql.com/blog/announcement/ceo-geoff-schmidts-message-to-apollo-employees/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nbar1</author><text>$300 is incredibly reasonable since it&amp;#x27;s more than $0.</text></item><item><author>lfittl</author><text>The &amp;quot;$300 mental health&amp;quot; seems odd - for any kind of counseling&amp;#x2F;therapy&amp;#x2F;etc sessions this is a drop in the bucket in terms of cost.&lt;p&gt;It will easily cost 10x to work with a mental health professional (and insurance companies sadly pay a very small amount of it). So why add this to an otherwise reasonable package?</text></item><item><author>jackson1442</author><text>Layoffs are going to suck regardless, but this is one of the best severance packages I&amp;#x27;ve seen in this wave:&lt;p&gt;* 15 weeks base pay + 1 week per year of employment&lt;p&gt;* 6 months COBRA + $300 mental health&lt;p&gt;* no 1-yr cliff, options can be exercised thru next year&lt;p&gt;* you can keep all your equipment</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesliudotcc</author><text>They are paying the COBRA. So this goes toward copays and hitting deductible. Assuming their health coverage is good (why wouldn&amp;#x27;t it be, it&amp;#x27;s a San Fran tech company?), this gets you pretty far.</text></comment>