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Companies this profitable and large often actually overhire a small degree to deny the competition talent and to give a layer of people that can be laid off to
by burnte 3y ago
Companies this profitable and large often actually overhire a small degree to deny the competition talent and to give a layer of people that can be laid off to boost profits quickly to make a board think management is good. Google or FB can lay off 5k people and not even NOTICE a change in productivity, but the boards eat it up.
- nicenewtemp84 3y agoThey might hire to scoop people up, but when they fire, don't they fire based on performance? Or is it purely a random pick?
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- JohnFen 3y agoSome from every column. In larger companies, firing decisions are often political decisions.
- burnte 3y agoYep, I've been in companies where it's the whole "every department needs to cut" rather than only cutting dead weight.
- zamnos 3y agoThat's what you, as an engineer would do if you were to do layoffs starting from first principles, but that's not who's doing the layoffs.
- ogn3rd 3y agoThis! AWS was doing this in 2017 and 2018.