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I am half with you - but I can totally imagine a company being that stupid, they just wouldn't phrase it as simple and direct as you did, so they don't see the

I am half with you - but I can totally imagine a company being that stupid, they just wouldn't phrase it as simple and direct as you did, so they don't see the stupidity. The mandatory 3 year "derisking" period sounds asinine. If you can't evaluate an engineer's ability to solve problems in 12 months for a position, I think that's a bigger issue. Conspiracy theory - Article is written by the "overeager engineer" who is looking for clever ways to respond to his company's asinine policies.

zmmmmm 7y ago
> The mandatory 3 year "derisking" period sounds asinine I don't have too much sympathy for the OP on stackoverflow, but I do think 3 years in a company of 5000+ people is not that long to wait to reach a senior position. It's not just about tech skills, at that level it is personality too. It's pretty important at senior levels that people are not just going to up and leave on a whim, so to my mind a 3 year type period is quite a reasonable test of whether they are long term suitable in the company.