Re:Meta and Google are cutting staff
by cdavid on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @06:05PM
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It is more complicated than that
* losing the low performer in this context means you lose a head count. If you keep the low performer during hard times, you can hope to get them backfilled when the economic environment gets better
* there are often more work to do than you have resources for: if as an EM, you have to deal with PM who refuse to adapt to capacity, you can simply assign the low perfomers to the projects you don't care about.
* etc.
once you reach a certain size, those issues happen in pretty much any organization in my experience.
* losing the low performer in this context means you lose a head count. If you keep the low performer during hard times, you can hope to get them backfilled when the economic environment gets better * there are often more work to do than you have resources for: if as an EM, you have to deal with PM who refuse to adapt to capacity, you can simply assign the low perfomers to the projects you don't care about. * etc.
once you reach a certain size, those issues happen in pretty much any organization in my experience.