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It's categorically unfair, but everyone says it when the "teacher isn't looking": Tech companies are just riding the wave to get rid of low performers and troub

It's categorically unfair, but everyone says it when the "teacher isn't looking": Tech companies are just riding the wave to get rid of low performers and troublemakers while they can. Signalling that you're part of that group (and I know it's unfair, I already said that) is unlikely to work to your advantage, in my view. It's a signal to the counterparty that they have leverage over you. It's going to attract people who want/need that leverage disproportionately. It probably will increase the raw number of contacts you make, but for the reasons above, I would avoid doing it until I crossed some threshold of "desperation".

elzbardico 3y ago
> Tech companies are just riding the wave to get rid of low performers and troublemakers while they can It is just an anecdote, a single data point, but in the company I work for, the criteria seemed to be cutting first the folks hired more recently. In my team itself the newest guy was cut and it was a shock to me, because he was really, really good and there were some obvious low performers that have survived so far, apparently just because they have been here for a long time. I knew of one or another case of a couple notorious low performers being laid off in other teams, but this was the exception rather than the rule: Probably those guys were already on their way to the guillotine on their PIPs and the layoffs just coincided in time with this.