Some companies do "hire fast, fire fast"... so yes. But I choose not to work for those companies, instead I prefer a strongly opinionated hiring process that w

Some companies do "hire fast, fire fast"... so yes. But I choose not to work for those companies, instead I prefer a strongly opinionated hiring process that won't play with anyone's life like that. That said, treating probation as probation is definitely a thing. Especially in legal domains such as France and Germany. In the USA it's far less of a thing as employers can mostly let go of people at almost any time if they wish to and it's not a pattern of discrimination (though this is the fear of course, that a pattern could be formed).