Foe: your numbers seem a little odd, from my experience the non-dev staff is a very small percentage unless there's some sort of critical mass that happens after you pass 500 people. I don't like the term non-essential staff, it gives you the false idea that developers aren't effected. If you are just doing pre-production…
There are a few named companies that do this to new people and exploit it to hell with unpaid overtime. From my point of view I see it as the investors/funders fault who become too shaken with bad investments to make any bold decisions, and the fact that they are so shaken of what they see on the news that they see the…