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sounds like a slave driver environment, if you ask me. It can't be good for morale, having people rotate through the company every month.
by vaksel 17y ago
sounds like a slave driver environment, if you ask me. It can't be good for morale, having people rotate through the company every month.
- unalone 17y agoIt depends on whose morale. I would love to work at a place that made an effort to place only brilliant people around me and that didn't tolerate less. Netflix works in the same way.
- ardit33 17y agoI agree. But if the guy next to you, working the same stuff as you, is paper worth 5mill more just b.c he started there 6 months earlier than you, then the equation changes.
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- rokhayakebe 17y agoWell, you did not have to say yes to the job offer in the first place. Or next time join early.
- foldr 17y agoThe question is, would you love it when they asked you to leave because you're not brilliant enough?
- unalone 17y agoI wouldn't intend to work there and let myself be kicked out.
- foldr 17y agoNeither did the employees who got kicked out, but it isn't entirely within their or your control. You may simply lack the ability to stay out of the lowest performance bracket.
- gaius 17y agoOr HR's metric for determining who is in that bracket may be a) wrong, as they don't understand the business or b) skewed. Let's say at a large company the HR department worked out an "objective" means of ranking employees, but when they ran it it turned out that the bottom 10% were overwhelmingly women/an ethnic minority/whatever. They're going to tweak it until it delivers the result they want, in which case how confident can anyone by that it was "objective" to start with?
- ivankirigin 17y agoit is nothing like a "slave driver" environment. People are extremely smart and focused on building cool things fast - top to bottom.
- vaksel 17y agooh please, it's facebook, not Google, their "cool" projects involve translating the site into pirate and latin languages. + with ~1000 employees, chances are you as a programmer are most likely doing mundane crap. The "extremely smart and focused" people don't take well to having to do bullshit projects.
- ivankirigin 17y agoyou have no idea what you're talking about
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- sachinag 17y agoUm, you know ivankirigin works at Facebook, right?
- vaksel 17y agosomeone whose company was acquired in order to get them into Facebook, will most likely have a different experience and quality of projects, than the average drone. + he's been there what...a month? he is still biased by the honeymoon phase.
- wheels 17y agoTipjoy wasn't actually acquired -- they hired Ivan, though there may have been a little extra on the table: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/22/facebook-hires-tipjoy-co-founder-ivan-kirigan-after-backing-away-from-a-full-acquisition/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/22/facebook-hires-tipjoy-c...