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There is nothing evil about this at all. People on HN constantly talk about how useless a large chunk of the FAANG workforce is- unnecessary projects just so s
by Newlaptop 2y ago
There is nothing evil about this at all.
People on HN constantly talk about how useless a large chunk of the FAANG workforce is- unnecessary projects just so someone can get a promotion, initiatives that are reinventing the wheel, managers who overhire to increase their headcount without any meaningful work for their employees to do, projects which get cancelled without ever launching. And that's just on the product and engineering side, HR, finance, and marketing have their own set of "bs jobs" and dysfunctions. Laying off the people responsible for all that makes sense.
Continuing the operate the profitable parts of the business, while shutting down the bad parts, is a good thing for a healthy company. Capital flowing to productive uses is a good thing for everyone in the long-term, even if it comes with the short-term hassle of some employees needing to find new jobs.
- anal_reactor 2y agoThat's completely true, but if a company refuses to admit any mistakes or wrongdoing, then we get used to having to dissect all of its actions looking for secret malice, or at least incompetence. Every single change in a sizeable company is called "a new direction" and it's always up to us to figure out what this actually means. That's why we're afraid of changes. I feel like our economy system misses a way to reward honest companies, and it resembles the Russian "we know they know we know they are lying, but we're still all excited about the new amazing opportunity".
- IshKebab 2y agoYeah and none of these people are going to struggle to find another job. I guess it sucks for the H1B people.
- bitcharmer 2y agoTbh I don't under why someone would think passing Google's interview process immediately makes someone a great hire. Care to explain?
- IshKebab 2y agoYou really don't understand that or you just don't like it? Because the reason is very simple and obvious...
- bitcharmer 2y agoIt takes much more than the ability to rebalance red-black trees on a whiteboard to make a good software engineer. But judging by your comment you won't agree so let's leave it at that.