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IBM didn't have it's first round of major layoffs until the 1990s, Google and Microsoft didn't have their first major layoffs until 2008-2009, Facebook/Meta did
by ThrowawayR2 2y ago
IBM didn't have it's first round of major layoffs until the 1990s, Google and Microsoft didn't have their first major layoffs until 2008-2009, Facebook/Meta didn't have its first major layoffs until 2022, etc. Even then, only a fraction of their employees were affected. People can last quite a long time at such places with a little luck.
- ghaff 2y agoYou can be in the wrong place at the wrong time anywhere--but, yeah, generally speaking given reasonable competence, you can ride a reasonable, if not spectacular, gravy train at most large organizations for a long time. Maybe that's not your thing--which is fine--but it's probably the case at a lot of large companies.
- paulryanrogers 2y agoStack ranking may push you out long before a major layoff
- mangamadaiyan 2y agoDon't know why you're getting downvotes, this is indeed a fact. (Edit: you don't have to be a bad performer to get shunted out by stack ranking. In a rotten enough organization, it is possible for a manager to write a performance review that acknowledges every goal that you've met, and still gives you a bad rating for any old excuse)