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From the article: "Q: What do you mean by stack-ranking engineers? What were the criteria? A: Raw number of lines of code over a certain period (a year I think
by JetSetIlly 4y ago
From the article:
"Q: What do you mean by stack-ranking engineers? What were the criteria?
A: Raw number of lines of code over a certain period (a year I think)."
Is correlation of line count and employee performance still a thing? I thought that went out of fashion decades ago.
- jrootabega 4y agoWhen the goal is to get rid of someone or some people, fashion doesn't matter. Anything that can be used to construct a case will be considered. The goal is to prevent being sued or losing the suit, not to look good. "No, your honor, here is our methodology for evaluating performance. As you can see, it is not violating any laws. These employees fell on the lower end of the scale." Also, in a situation where the owner is hostile to the employees, and the employees are hostile to the owner, how are you going to perform more accurate assessments? Code output may be the least bad heuristic they can use. And of course, let's not forget this whole thing is meant to be a spectacle.
- JetSetIlly 4y agoThank-you for the reply. I interpreted the original FAQ answer to mean that stack ranking by lines-of-code has been used by Twitter in the recent past, prior to Musk. But I can now see that this is a new criteria used to justify layoffs.