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I am wondering if Zuckerberg somehow stumbled upon the old Decimation thing on Wikipedia one late evening and decided it was a good idea to try. I don't really
by stephc_int13 5mo ago
I am wondering if Zuckerberg somehow stumbled upon the old Decimation thing on Wikipedia one late evening and decided it was a good idea to try.
I don't really understand the rationale otherwise, hiring is hard, and they are not forced to reduce cost now.
This seems like a colossal mistake. Not the first of course.
- percentcer 5mo agowhat is the Decimation thing?
- 1-more 5mo agoRoman legions would execute every 10th man as collective punishment. Kept the survivors in line. No idea if it ever actually happened.
- stephc_int13 5mo agoIt is something that occured a few times in Roman history. A collective punishment, 10% of the soldiers killed by their peers, randomly choosen.
- 1-more 5mo ago> stumbled upon the old Decimation thing on Wikipedia He took Latin at his first high school and at Exeter when he went there for 11th and 12th grades, so he almost certainly knew it without Wikipedia. But yeah, whenever I've survived a layoff it feels a bit like surviving a decimation or some other collective punishment.
- mrguyorama 5mo agoThe industry standardized on this as "Stack ranking" like two decades ago.
- stephc_int13 5mo agoThis is more of the Bezos style, maybe inspired by the same idea. Appears less random and continual.