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I can't think of a single company I've ever worked at, including small startups, where there wasn't at least 10% of the employees who were pure dead weight, and
by fallingknife 4y ago
I can't think of a single company I've ever worked at, including small startups, where there wasn't at least 10% of the employees who were pure dead weight, and cutting them would either have no effect or improve productivity. I would absolutely not consider any type of cut on behalf of letting these people keep their jobs.
- quelltext 4y agoWhat qualifies you to make that determination of 10% being dead weight? But let's say the assessment is correct, the problem is that layoffs are often a bit random. The company won't actually be able to identify these 10% you mention, or when it does they might keep them because they are cheaper than you. In the end you are looking at good people or even yourself being affected by layoffs. I'd take the pay cut over the risk of losing my job or well performing coworkers.
- fallingknife 4y agoI totally agree that companies may not get the right people. They also may not intend to get those people. A lot of companies get rid of teams they don't need rather than individuals. Sure, it would be more efficient to lay off dead weight from all teams, and reassign the remainder of the teams you don't want, but higher ups don't have the time for that. And I was affected by a layoff just recently, but layoffs don't really hurt good engineers. You just find another job. My whole team was nuked back in November. But I found a new job within a month, and at a 25% pay increase. So taking a cut would have been a terrible deal. They say the market is bad, but I think that just means bad for bad engineers. Whereas quality really didn't even matter a year ago.