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A friend of mine working as a deep learning engineer at one of the big tech companies is working her ass off due to fear of layoffs. She mentioned that their ma
by nasir 4y ago
A friend of mine working as a deep learning engineer at one of the big tech companies is working her ass off due to fear of layoffs. She mentioned that their manager takes quiz! from them and gives them performance tests. The vibe is incredibly tense and except a few who are working on secret projects, the rest are left hanging in a looming lay-off round.
Every day she works till late at nights or awake 5am to continue working. She now thinks that working like that over the pas few months has reduced the chances of her being laid off but she's is completely fed-up and I think she's risking having a burnout.
- fifteen1506 4y agoWouldn't it be -- at least, with the safety of looking from a distance -- be better that she found another company which actively wants her? I always get suspicious of mass layoffs -- I always think they are not connected to performance but to networking and marketing of your work.
- theGnuMe 4y agoSounds like she has a bad or even toxic manager. A big problem research orgs have is the 'publish or perish' mentality imported from academia. The business version of this is the "what is the last thing you did for me?" mentality which is toxic. Managers need to be more Ted Lasso than Led Tasso.