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Is this meant to be a fresh new take on hiring designed to get people to be excited about working there? Or some clever lead in to the next script for "Silicon

by hoodoof 10y ago

Is this meant to be a fresh new take on hiring designed to get people to be excited about working there? Or some clever lead in to the next script for "Silicon Valley"? As I read it I was envisaging a background advertisement for working at Expensify with upbeat music, groovy offices, quick cut shots, smiling faces, people enthusing at a whiteboard over some software diagram, snap the camera to screens full of code and concentrating people, and then a big Donald Trump at the end pointing down the barrel of the camera "YOU'RE FIRED!" Then a sad person leaving the office with their head hung low because they were only 8X The truth about software development is that you absolutely need to fire problem team members ASAP, but this is not something to build into your hiring strategy as a positive. In fact if you need to do that then your hiring strategy is not working in the first place. This sounds alot like stack ranking which was popular at places like Microsoft and has been shown to be a disaster. Usually hiring and :-) FIRING! strategies like this have been concocted by non technical or less technical people. Expensify would be well advised to take down this post and rethink. And have a guess what link every staff member at Expensify is emailing to each other right now?

jdavis703 10y ago
This is their hiring "advertisement." In the Muni Embarcadero Station they have bought 6 slots, one of which shouts "We fire people." They also have signs about how they treat people like adults and compensate fairly by way of some kind of committee or something (something that was also referenced in this article).
- hoodoof 10y ago
  They don't understand negative versus positive messaging.
gone35 10y ago
Is this [...] some clever lead in to the next script for "Silicon Valley"? The author does say in his LinkedIn profile[1] he is "making the world a better place, one expense report at a time"... so maybe you are on to something. [1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmbarrett https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmbarrett
- hoodoof 10y ago
  That is hilarious. He has no idea he is a Silicon Valley character. Seriously creating a fictional company that is precisely like this would be a great way to promote Silicon Valley. Trouble is there are so many companies and people who are part of the self parody without knowing it.

by hoodoof 10y ago

jdavis703 10y ago

This is their hiring "advertisement." In the Muni Embarcadero Station they have bought 6 slots, one of which shouts "We fire people." They also have signs about how they treat people like adults and compensate fairly by way of some kind of committee or something (something that was also referenced in this article).

hoodoof 10y ago
They don't understand negative versus positive messaging.

gone35 10y ago

Is this [...] some clever lead in to the next script for "Silicon Valley"? The author does say in his LinkedIn profile[1] he is "making the world a better place, one expense report at a time"... so maybe you are on to something. [1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmbarrett https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmbarrett

hoodoof 10y ago
That is hilarious. He has no idea he is a Silicon Valley character. Seriously creating a fictional company that is precisely like this would be a great way to promote Silicon Valley. Trouble is there are so many companies and people who are part of the self parody without knowing it.