> So instead of firing them, they get shifted into underperforming teams. I work at Google. I've seen this one time. A manager didn't want to do the hard work

> So instead of firing them, they get shifted into underperforming teams. I work at Google. I've seen this one time. A manager didn't want to do the hard work of firing somebody on their team and then misrepresented their productivity to another manager when that person tried to switch teams. This manager received a bad performance review and left the company (I don't know if it was their choice). It is easy to move teams within Google (or, it used to be at least). But it is very hard to move teams within Google if you have bad performance reviews. You can't really shift underperformers to underperforming teams at scale.