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A certain Y Combinator startup (two-sided labor marketplace in healthcare and nursing homes) requires that its frontline managers PIP or fire at least half of t
by shivtherust 3y ago
A certain Y Combinator startup (two-sided labor marketplace in healthcare and nursing homes) requires that its frontline managers PIP or fire at least half of their team each year and sometimes more frequently. "If you're average, why are you here."
And the managers do because they are terrified about losing their jobs. It has one of the worst cultures, and code bases, in the world, because nobody knows how things work or why decisions got made, and no one trusts their team mates enough to ask questions.
Its all done in the name of excellence.
- distortionfield 3y agoThis sort of “manually induced churn” is absolutely god awful for a code base. I’ve seen the exact product of this type of management. And then, because the code base is so awful, the only productive people are the ones who have been around long enough to avoid the culling, but they’re also dealing with how bad it is, so even their productivity comes to a near-grinding-halt. and management wonders why nothing is getting done. It must be because they need more engineers… and the cycle continues.
- Ancalagon 3y agoclipboard? edit: can we just say the company names, this site is anonymous lmao
- whynot-123 3y agothat would make sense - they've reached out to me frequently over the years - seemed a bit desperate. Stopped the interview process the first time after learning what their PM salaries across a couple of levels were from an acquaintance who had recently interviewed there and realized they didn't value engineer's time.