> 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 t

> 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.