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The real mistake is not correcting a mistake when you see you've made one. It's always hard to let someone go, especially in a small company with a focus on pe

The real mistake is not correcting a mistake when you see you've made one. It's always hard to let someone go, especially in a small company with a focus on personal development and a positive work environment. However, if you don't address this situation: 1) The morale of the company will likely decrease. 2) The productivity of the team will suffer. 3) Employees may start questioning the leadership's decisions. 4) Some may consider leaving as a result. Generally speaking, the well-being and efficiency of the entire team should be a top priority for the company. From this, it also follows that having a solid interview process is crucial.

kjkjadksj 2y ago
At the same time I kept thinking if they did fire the dev those 4 points you listed would happen. Damned if you do damned if you don’t.
- IshKebab 2y ago
  I don't know, if they really are as bad as op says then I think most people would cheer them on. I certainly appreciate seeing the occasional "we agreed it would be best for them to take a different path" emails from my company. Bit weird for them to send a global email for that tbh, but it really does send the message that they are actually responding to complaints and taking performance seriously, which is good. In most companies in Europe it's incredibly hard to fire people even if they are bad at their job, and people know it. It's refreshing when managers actually do get rid of poorly performing employees.
- noirbot 2y ago
  Yea, I think it really depends on if the team's manager is getting comments from other devs on the team about the person getting fired. I had a QA get fired from one of my teams way back and while I liked them as a person, it was clear they weren't doing good work or having any real focus on what they were assigned, unlike their peers in the role, so it made sense. I would add, a big point of the announcement should be "And we'll be expediting backfilling them". The worst sort of firings/quits is when management sits on their hands for weeks in replacing them.

kjkjadksj 2y ago

At the same time I kept thinking if they did fire the dev those 4 points you listed would happen. Damned if you do damned if you don’t.

IshKebab 2y ago
I don't know, if they really are as bad as op says then I think most people would cheer them on. I certainly appreciate seeing the occasional "we agreed it would be best for them to take a different path" emails from my company. Bit weird for them to send a global email for that tbh, but it really does send the message that they are actually responding to complaints and taking performance seriously, which is good. In most companies in Europe it's incredibly hard to fire people even if they are bad at their job, and people know it. It's refreshing when managers actually do get rid of poorly performing employees.
noirbot 2y ago
Yea, I think it really depends on if the team's manager is getting comments from other devs on the team about the person getting fired. I had a QA get fired from one of my teams way back and while I liked them as a person, it was clear they weren't doing good work or having any real focus on what they were assigned, unlike their peers in the role, so it made sense. I would add, a big point of the announcement should be "And we'll be expediting backfilling them". The worst sort of firings/quits is when management sits on their hands for weeks in replacing them.