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If you work for a company that lays off 6% of the "fat" every year and then still continues to have 6+% of the company considered "fat" then the issue isn't the

• hinkley 3y ago
  Let’s call a spade a spade. It’s not an “issue” it’s abuse. This is abusive behavior.
• Aurornis 3y ago
  > If you work for a company that lays off 6% of the "fat" every year and then still continues to have 6+% of the company considered "fat" Most tech companies I've worked for in the past years have had about 30-40% new people every year through a combination of natural turnover and growth. You're right that if a company never grows and nobody ever leaves yet they still try to isolate 6% to fire every year, that's a bad practice. However, nobody gets hiring perfectly right. When you're hiring hundreds of people every year into a department, you're going to get a couple people who don't work out. I think people on HN get nervous around these discussions because they imagine companies as static collections of individuals, but at a high growth company you actually have a lot of new people coming through all the time. It's also bad when companies never fire anyone. If you just let everyone stay until they quit, you accumulate a lot of people who aren't working out while their high performing coworkers get frustrated and leave. I've seen this situation too and it's not good.