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"One Yahoo employee who was interviewed said she was praying to be laid off so she could collect a severance payment and move on with her life." Would you thin
by wsc981 11y ago
"One Yahoo employee who was interviewed said she was praying to be laid off so she could collect a severance payment and move on with her life."
Would you think this particular employee would be valuable? I think many of the best employees have already left. Good employees will easily find new jobs and won't need the severance payment, I would think.
I think in general Yahoo employees will be less attractive for employers now, compared to perhaps half a year ago.
- throwaway2048 11y agopeople have a lot of reasons for staying with a company beyond just not being a 10x developer or a super rockstar ninja or whatever assumptions. Maybe they have a family or a new house, or both. Maybe they are excellent developers but lack political awareness or marketing skills. Maybe they have more freedom with a certain task than likely elsewhere. Maybe they feel a lot of loyalty. Its a very unreliable inference to assume they are just somehow less than ideal canidates because they choose to continue with what appears to be a failing company from the outside. Not everyone cares about absolutely maximizing long term career prospects at all stages of their life. That dosent make them bad employees.
- wutbrodo 11y agoYou're of course correct, but the point was that the probability distribution is shifted. It's a blunt probabilistic instrument, but it's extremely common in hiring to use such instruments.