Firing duds is the best moral booster there is.

There is very little paperwork required to fire someone.

If the employee is still on contract (ala contract-to-perm) just collect their badge and be done with it.

If they are a W-2 employee with benefits, you hand them a few benefits notice forms and send them on their way.

If they apply for unemployment, the company will get a notice that the former employee has applied for benefits.

I agree with you, but in reality, a large enough company could face (and lose) a wrongful termination lawsuit if they do this too often. The burden of proof for this is surprisingly low and engineering pays well enough that many of them can afford good lawyers.

Plus there's the added risk of hiring "duds" that are also minorities. And letting too many of them go will make it look like formal discrimination. Which is a much, much more expensive mess.

And then there's this issue of finding the duds. Easy for the people on the ground to spot, but less so for management and HR, which will require some form of reasonably accurate performance evaluations.

>Firing duds is the best moral booster there is.

The Glassdoor reviews on Netflix suggest otherwise.