Refactoring Back End Engineering Hiring at Slack

Re:Refactoring Back End Engineering Hiring at Slack by malvosenior on Thursday April 04, 2019 @02:50PM (#19575790)

I disagree. By optimizing to protect poor performers, you jeopardize all employees. It's more important that the company succeed and that people who are good at their job get to work unencumbered.

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Re:Refactoring Back End Engineering Hiring at Slack by philwelch on Friday April 05, 2019 @05:52PM (#19587388)

Framing the decision to fire someone as a trolley problem (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem) doesn't make you look any less cold-blooded :)

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Re:Refactoring Back End Engineering Hiring at Slack by malvosenior on Sunday April 07, 2019 @11:55AM (#19597573)

Have you ever been a manager? Again, it's not being cold blooded, it's one of the main responsibilities of the job. Being a leader isn't easy and you often have to make tough decisions and sacrifice in the name of the team. This has been well known throughout the history of leadership.

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