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> OpenAI's employee attrition rate between January 2018 and July 2020 was in the order of 50%. and > Those who questioned this practice were dismissed as "bad
by shmatt 3y ago
> OpenAI's employee attrition rate between January 2018 and July 2020 was in the order of 50%.
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> Those who questioned this practice were dismissed as "bad culture fits" and even terminated, some just before Thanksgiving 2019.
Would be pretty easy to verify, and could be concerning (mostly the 50% part)
- xena 3y agoA 50% attrition rate is worse than fast food hourly work.
- jeffwiederkehr 3y agoI managed fast food restaurants prior to becoming a SWE and our target turnover was 130% annually so not quite to that level.
- FormerBandmate 3y agoOpenAI went through at least one purge, Musk founded it but famously is no longer associated with it. There’s a huge amount of board turnover, it would be interesting to see the causes behind that
- nickff 3y agoA median tenure of 2.5 years seems pretty good, compared to those employees likes other options; Amazon's average is only one year. https://amazonbound.medium.com/why-amazons-attrition-is-higher-than-attrition-at-other-tech-companies-b0de9cb2c4fe https://amazonbound.medium.com/why-amazons-attrition-is-high...