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Will go back to hiring in a year or so, it's a cycle
by sekai 4y ago
Will go back to hiring in a year or so, it's a cycle
- notatoad 4y agomost of them haven't even stopped hiring. pay close attention to the layoff announcements to see which ones also announce a hiring freeze - most of them haven't. and i've heard of a few people getting offers from companies that have done mass layoffs in recent months.
- ilyt 4y agoI wouldn't be surprised if they layed off "bottom 10%" in hopes of replacing them with better when the market for IT workforce is cheaper..
- raydev 4y agoNope, it's mostly random.
- notatoad 4y agoi'm sure there's some of this, but it doesn't seem like the broader trend. if they were really laying off the bottom 10% there wouldn't be so many stories of managers complaining about their direct reports being laid off without any advance warning. it's hard to pick out low performers in any sort of sane way if you're not even asking managers who their low performers are.
- imbnwa 4y agoSeen 17-year Google vet get hit on Twitter, doubt they were a low performer
- coffeebeqn 4y agoAlso since everyone is “laying off their bottom 10%” and then rehiring from that pool thinking they’re hiring the top 10%. Sounds like musical chairs. There’s a old Joel Spolsky article on how everyone thinks they’re always hiring the global maximum