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When I read Google lays off 6% of workforce I thought they just fired the lowest bucket in the most recent performance review. Maybe they fired also those who s
by mathteddybear 4y ago
When I read Google lays off 6% of workforce I thought they just fired the lowest bucket in the most recent performance review. Maybe they fired also those who submitted it after a deadline? On the other hand, quite a lot of laid off stories were from new hires, and the performance reviews underwent some changes last year...
- vineyardmike 4y ago> I thought they just fired the lowest bucket in the most recent performance review They did not. Should they have? Maybe. They for sure impacted some groups more than others. I was in Nest (Devices+Services), and I hear we were impacted worse than Search. For example, Fuchsia OS team had heavy cuts. Interestingly, it did impact even AI/Search/Ads, which I didn't expect. Maybe there was a performance component, but it is quite opaque, and there definitely were good/average performers who were impacted. Certainly plenty who weren't in the bottom 6%.
- gymbeaux 4y ago[flagged]
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- dang 4y agoCan you please stop posting unsubstantive comments? We end up rate-limiting and/or banning accounts that keeping doing that. You've been doing it repeatedly, but fortunately not for very long, so this should be easy to fix. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- gymbeaux 4y agoI don’t see why not! Thanks for not banning me outright.
- UncleMeat 4y agoPerformance reviews aren't finalized. I'm also aware of low performers who were not fired and high performers (both in terms of prior perf ratings and proposed ratings for this year) who were fired. Performance was probably used as a sorting mechanism but it wasn't the primary one. If your team was chosen to have somebody fired, then get fucked - somebody is getting fired.