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Engineers at Google are referred to as “headcount”. Managers fight each other for headcount. When someone leaves they are lamented for their net loss of .67 hea
by teaearlgraycold 3y ago
Engineers at Google are referred to as “headcount”. Managers fight each other for headcount. When someone leaves they are lamented for their net loss of .67 headcount (right now you only get one hire for 3 attritions).
- devnullbrain 3y agoDoes that mean managers are incentivised not to let go of underperformers?
- andromeduck 3y agoThat's "durable savings" for ya.
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoYes absolutely. I was explicitly told I could get away with doing nothing for 12 months before I’d get fired. I decided to quit instead.
- devnullbrain 3y agoEither I've read a blog post you've written before or this is a common occurrence.
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoYeah my blog post hit the front page.
- VirusNewbie 3y agoYES! One of the reasons I much prefer the netflix model of firing quickly and being able to get a headcount. You do have some slackers at google who are able to hang on for long periods of time because their manager knows the project they're in charge of isn't a priority anymore, so the backfill will go to more exciting/new projects. So these managers will let people slack. Most of the people I work with at Google work fairly hard in cloud (nothing crazy like I've heard about AWS) but you run into slackers on occasion.
- VirusNewbie 3y agoNot true, my team gets 1 for 1.