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You are a middle manager. Do you say "bob in the other department hired 5 people, so I guess I'll stick with the three I have"? Nope. You go straight to your
by codeonfire 14y ago
You are a middle manager. Do you say "bob in the other department hired 5 people, so I guess I'll stick with the three I have"? Nope. You go straight to your VP and say a rival VP just got five guys, where's mine. If hiring is decentralized and no one is concerned about costs you end up growing exponential.
- Firehed 14y agoThen the VP is not doing his/her job correctly. Someone needs to be aware of the budget for salaries and be responsible for ensuring it isn't exceeded (and held accountable if it is). It's also very backwards (government-level!) thinking to be playing the hiring quota game like that. I'd much rather hire a few members in a kick-ass team than participate in a headcount battle.
- codeonfire 14y agoI agree with your statements, but those are arguments about how it should be, and not how it is.
- chris_wot 14y agoSeems to me that they need the level of developers they have, because they've said they are moving their whole division to India. That's not a mass redundancy, that's a mass replacement.
- SoftwareMaven 14y agoThat sounds like what would happen at Strawman, Inc. I've worked at a bunch of companies, big and small, and have never seen hiring justified like that. Now, getting people and teams transferred once they are hired? That's a whole different story.
- codeonfire 14y agoWhat do you propose caused Zynga management to vastly overhire and conduct layoffs?
- jrockway 14y agoThey expected faster growth than what actually happened. It's possible that the CEO approved each individual hire and they still could have overhired.