> Pretty sure that if you have glowing perf reviews, your job is safe. No, because when large corps want to reduce head count/payroll, it often comes as a top

> Pretty sure that if you have glowing perf reviews, your job is safe. No, because when large corps want to reduce head count/payroll, it often comes as a top down directive for every group to trim by X%... In this type of environment being good at your job doesn't help - after a few cycles of these types of layoff all that are left are the better people, and the next X% layoff will be them.