Re:Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’
by xref on Friday January 03, 2020 @04:31AM
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In America anyway employment is largely “at will.” Is there something illegal about firing VPs?
Re:Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’
by Aeolun on Thursday January 02, 2020 @08:46PM
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Still better to fire them than atrophy the company slowly. Just fire your VP of legal affairs last.
Re:Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’
by smt88 on Friday January 03, 2020 @12:43AM
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I don't see any evidence that the company is atrophying based on its own measures of success: stock price and market share.
That's part of the cultural problem. You can't know if your culture helps or hurts because there's no control group.
Since Google is doing well financially, they'll have to conclude that their culture is good (or good enough) and stay the course. Firing VPs is rocking the boat, and any Board would be infuriated by it.
I know you weren't being 100% serious, but I'll say this anyway: of course they can't fire those people. They'd be buried in lawsuits.
More to the point, this is the problem with bad hiring practices. A few years (or, in this case, 10+ years) of misguided hiring practices can bury you in a cultural problem that will take much longer to dig yourself out of.
It's even worse when you're talking about top execs, who can only be fired by a risk-averse/change-averse Board of Directors and will take a massive golden parachute with them when they are fired.