They're laying off 10% of 6,000 employees. Not everyone.
Re:SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce
by cyberferret on Friday January 11, 2019 @09:19PM
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Firing via SQL query or an email filter. Is this what we have come to?
SELECT * FROM employees ORDER BY last_performance_review_score LIMIT 600;
Re:SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce
by rightbyte on Saturday January 12, 2019 @06:13AM
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This is acctually probably how they do it.
Typically higher scores are better. If SpaceX used this query they would fire their 600 best employees. Or they use bad column names.
On top of the lame SQL reference this diminishes the true severity of firing 600 real people. We have no reason to think the firing was this nonchalant. This diminishes the work and humanity of everyone involved.
It appears to be a weak reference to stack ranking.
Do you have any reason to believe this is probdbly how they identified people to be let go?
Default ordering would be ascending order, smallest to largest. You would need to specify DESC to order the higher numbers first.
Yep, too late and too many beers to be commenting on HN.
On top of that, there are security concerns with hanging onto employees and letting them have access to company property during a time that they know they will be fired. Especially for a company that performs services for top secret government projects.
The easiest (though you won't catch me arguing that it's the best) way is to hold a staff meeting, and then let corp IT churn through the 6000 person list over the weekend and remove access.