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Large companies (I've worked for two, in the Valley) have huge amounts of bureaucracy. Until you've worked for one, it's unbelievable how inefficient and wastef
by auctiontheory 13y ago
Large companies (I've worked for two, in the Valley) have huge amounts of bureaucracy. Until you've worked for one, it's unbelievable how inefficient and wasteful they can be.
Maybe regular layoffs are a way to "force" some efficiency into the system, to cut out some fat, even if you end up losing some good people with the bad.
The promise of regular layoffs is also an excellent way to keep your employees toeing the line. Not everyone is a 25-year-old web developer with three competing job offers at all times.
- spamizbad 13y agoMy (albeit limited) experience is that the company will become slightly more efficient short-term, but long term the bureaucracy closes ranks and goes into self-preservation mode which makes things even less efficient. Departments will start scheming ways to make themselves an artificial dependency on daily operations "You can't fire the [team], they handle approvals for [newly invented step in process]!" Pretty soon you have entire floors full of people who's entire full time job is essentially keeping their full time job. I'm inclined to think that once you're out of "startup mode" your company's efficiency will have more to do with its culture than its headcount.
- MichaelMoser123 13y agoIn my experience the manager will not fire their manager friends; they will tend to settle political scores. Guess who is to get the boot? those who cause 'trouble' by speaking up, now all to often these are the guys/girls who care about their work and who are good at it. My advise: if you interview a person who has been fired from big corp. then don't form any preconceptions against that person based on that fact alone.