Um, is it really that hard to fire someone in CA? It's an at-will state and you can get rid of someone that day for any reason under the sky (that isn't 'discriminatory').
Firing doesn't seem hard but I think your point does stand that the cost of having to do so is kind of great. Find, hire, onboard and train a new employee, one that you hope does better than the bad hire.
Re:How we interview engineers at CircleCI
by hamandcheese on Monday March 26, 2018 @04:46PM
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Would it be possible (and legal) to reduce the salary of an employee? In SF this could be an effective means to force an employees exit without actually firing them, due to cost of living.
A few companies do manage to do it, but as far as I can tell you have to set up your corporate culture, HR department etc. from the outset to be prepared and ready for firing people frequently, and that's not something many startups (other than maybe Netflix?) were/are really well prepared for...