Layoffs at Sonos epitomize its bad year. Time will tell if the restructuring can help the company regain its direction.

Sonos, the audio company known best for at-home speakers and a flubbed app release last year, is laying off 200 workers. The move comes less than a month into interim CEO Tom Conrad’s tenure, and as the Santa Barbara company continues to reel from an app update debacle last May that rankled customers and cost Sonos tens of millions of dollars to fix.