He comes as a tremendous jerk. I mean kicking out 150 people in your hometown where job market is much worse than say in Moscow or St.Petersburg, and with such a spite making sure that they publicly got that "fired for performance reason" black label on resume.
My limited understanding though is that such easy firing doesn't work in Russia. The fired employees probably have a case, and while it probably makes sense just to move on, some of them may decide to drag the company a bit through it with related publicity/etc.
it is a simple "work your ass out or walk your ass out" without the unnecessary slavic macho-bravade of foul words.
In this case I intentionally tried (and looks like i succeeded :) to deliver the "slavic macho-bravade of foul words" (well put, you definitely have a way with words) as expressed by the CEO as it is a directly related to that harsh firing and very illustrative of the CEO part of the picture.
- the 1st, sounding great in Russian, yet hard to translate, is "work energetically like f&cking or f&ck off"
- the 2nd is "looking for a great PR professional in Russia"
https://vc.ru/hr/277765-glava-xsolla-obyasnil-massovye-uvoln...
While without directly offensive words, not like the FB posts above, his message firing the people is still written in a very insulting disrespectful tone. "Write me a long letter". Russian term is "izdevka". The message is written with a lot of mistypes and Russian language mistakes. It doesn't look to me like it was written in a rational and/or sober state.
Some points from https://app2top.ru/industry/xsolla-ob-yasnila-uvol-neniya-za...
- slowdown of growth is the reason for layoffs, and thus decision to cut 10% of salary budget
- primarily firing rank-and-file, not management
- time spend in git/IDE wasn't considered in the evaluating employee efficiency
- most layoffs in Perm is because salaries there are lower than in US
I get a feeling that he is losing it, like he probably got teared a new one by the investors or something like this, got drunk and got that epiphany ... The metrics collection was probably going for some time, and finally they found a use for them.