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I definitely agree on big tech company bloat, but do not agree with those percentages (or at least on average). I also don't think he properly sorted engineers
by thdc 4y ago
I definitely agree on big tech company bloat, but do not agree with those percentages (or at least on average).
I also don't think he properly sorted engineers between slackers and non-slackers due to reasons like the speed at which cutting occurred and the rehiring into firing to fix whatever random issues.
Industry wide layoffs are a nice cover to cut inefficient workers, although I don't know how well they can be sussed out in large companies. My own company with only a few hundred employees cut some people and I can say that, of the ones I was familiar with, they were mostly slackers or low performers.
- indus 4y ago> My own company with only a few hundred employees cut some people and I can say that, of the ones I was familiar with, they were mostly slackers or low performers. Is that true across the board?
- thdc 4y agoThat's a good question - if you mean across the industry as a whole then I would say maybe because I don't have insight into every company. I also mentioned that I think it is harder to determine the low performers in larger companies that have 1000x more workers. I do know that some companies have focused on laying off certain departments or teams, though the criteria is a mystery to me (not profitable on paper?). I would also like to amend my current qualifiers to include underutilized employees, too; eg a company over-hires and ends up not having enough work for everyone, which seems to be another common narrative for these layoffs. These people can appear as low performers even though it is the fault of the company for hiring them.