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If Intel were well managed they would purge like 2/3rs of the managers and anyone in the bottom 50th percentile and then pay whatever it takes to get people ski
by packetlost 1y ago
If Intel were well managed they would purge like 2/3rs of the managers and anyone in the bottom 50th percentile and then pay whatever it takes to get people skilled in their core industry back, training the remaining people as necessary to fill in gaps for the future.
They literally cannot have a culture that encourages the now-traditional job hopping that is so pervasive in American business culture. They can't afford it.
- freeopinion 1y agoWho gets to determine the bottom 50th percentile?
- packetlost 1y agoit doesn't really matter as long as you retain the top 10% who do 90% of the work.
- willhslade 1y agoI think you glossed over the question
- packetlost 1y agoGenerally, the answer is management via performance reviews.
- willhslade 1y agoSo current management, who had proven incapable of running a business, will be trusted to ignore past political games and just retain talent? That's certainly a take
- freeopinion 1y agoPresumably the same management that is proposed to be axed en masse with the 50% they are now tasked with selecting...
- jazzyjackson 1y agoLet's flip it. Direct reports get to vote on whether they would be better off without their manager.
- BeetleB 1y ago> it doesn't really matter as long as you retain the top 10% who do 90% of the work. This isn't SW. Those ratios don't exist in the HW world. (And to be frank, it's a myth in SW too).
- SlowTao 1y agoAnd welcome to the "fun" world of Stack Ranking.
- blitzar 1y agoI am yet to see a round of "cut the bottom 10%" that didn't end up also cutting a bunch of top 5% staff.
- _carbyau_ 1y agoIn every workplace I've been, I end up thinking 50% of people here could be gone tomorrow and nothing would change. But the real trick is filtering precisely the 50% you want.