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Googles layoff are among the dumbest I’ve ever seen. Laying off randomly and not low performers is par for the course for the management of Google. High perfor
by blindriver 3y ago
Googles layoff are among the dumbest I’ve ever seen.
Laying off randomly and not low performers is par for the course for the management of Google. High performers will leave when the market gets Better and the company will fill itself with more shitty performers.
This is not how a top tier company behaves.
- jldugger 3y ago> Googles layoff are among the dumbest I’ve ever seen. Hasbro's latest round still tops this though.
- free652 3y ago>Laying off randomly and not low performers Low performers? By what metric? And your metric sucks, that's because a single metric is meaningless, even 10 metrics are useless. Did you do over 200 CLs a year? 10000 LoC? 10-20 design docs? 10 product launches? CL comments, reviews, bug fixed, filed? Sure you can identify outliers, but the baseline is not exactly very telling. In my other companies layoffs were always random.
- blindriver 3y agoStriving to cut low performers and sometimes getting it wrong is orders of magnitude better than randomly cutting people, gutting high performers, and ruining confidence to other high performers that working hard will be appreciated. So yes, it doesn't matter which metric you want to use, but use something that is directionally correct with being a low performer, and get rid of those people. You might get some wrong but for the most part, people will be happier that the coasters and stragglers are gone.