> When I asked Denisov-Blanch if his algorithm was being used by any companies in Silicon Valley to help inform layoffs, he said: “I can’t specifically comment

> When I asked Denisov-Blanch if his algorithm was being used by any companies in Silicon Valley to help inform layoffs, he said: “I can’t specifically comment on whether we were or were not involved in layoffs [at any company] because we’re under strict privacy agreements.” > I have friends, I call them at 11 am on a Wednesday and they’re sleeping, literally. I’m like, ‘Whoa, don’t you work in big tech?’ But nobody checks, and they’ve been doing that for years.” > [he] said that he imagines a future where engineers are judged more like salespeople, who get commission or laid off based on performance. It's amazing how much this guy clearly has an axe to grind about his "friends" and is apparently rewarded for tweeting out unsupported conclusions like "might work multiple jobs" to unpublished, un-reviewed research. Do they not do IRB review at Stanford? Why are you allowed to enroll companies in research by touting that they can use your algorithm to lay employees off? *Technically not a layoff if it's based on the employee's performance metric but this distinction seems not to matter to the author