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> “In order to continue our important work to ensure we operate efficiently, we’ve made the hard decision to reduce the size of our recruiting team." I get the
by karim79 3y ago
> “In order to continue our important work to ensure we operate efficiently, we’ve made the hard decision to reduce the size of our recruiting team."
I get the use of the sort of appeal-to-emotion word "hard" in this context, but if it's a necessary business decision then it's problem not a hard one. Just feels a bit disingenuous to me, as I don't think throwing that word will likely make anyone feel better.
- paulddraper 3y agoIt's absolutely a hard decision, even if an objectively correct one. It impacts hundreds of people and their families. I see no reason to believe the sentiment ("appeal-to-emotion") is untruthful. I hope all affected are able to find good resolutions.
- mpixel 3y agoYeah, even if we assume the decision is coming from a complete sociopath, there's still, somewhere on the line, someone saying 'look, are you sure about this?' These companies are heartless. People in the chain, much less so.
- AlbertCory 3y agoIt's "hard" in the same sense that Michael deciding to whack Sal in The Godfather was hard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFqgRFal35A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFqgRFal35A
- paulddraper 3y agoWeird analogy to murder, but I guess so
- AlbertCory 3y agoIt's just business for all of them. Nothing hard about it at all.
- darkwizard42 3y ago"hard" in this case doesn't mean complexity, it means difficulty in an emotional sense
- Panini_Jones 3y ago"We’ve solved the NP-hard decision problem of reducing the size of our recruiting team in polynomial time, thus proving P=NP."
- WJW 3y agoSurely firing N people is at most linear time. Possibly lower, if you can get economies of scale by caching the paperwork.
- Panini_Jones 3y agoApologies; I wasn't very serious in my previous comment. I'm not sure how layoff algorithms work, but it is most likely polynomial. Firing people would be linear/sub-linear but candidate selection is probably a bit heavier. Maybe a little extra overhead too for paying MBB to suggest Google's GRAD and SCI programs.
- version_five 3y agoO(1) for that guy that just fired everyone during a zoom meeting.
- MockObject 3y agoIt's absolutely disingenuous. The public doesn't care if Google employees are emotionally suited for their management roles or not!