Re:Microsoft to lay off 11,000 employees
by convolvatron on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @03:38PM
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no hiring process fires 100%. a healthy company deals with that reality incrementally. since many companies have adopted a policy of just generally not firing anyone for performance reasons, they just accrete these people, and when the opportunity arises (i.e. merger), they vent them en masse. I guess its easier to deal with the emotional/morale issues? probably legal too.
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Re:Microsoft to lay off 11,000 employees
by PreachSoup on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @04:28PM
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> many companies have adopted a policy of just generally not firing anyone for performance reasons
Not sure if that's true. For example, out of FANNG afaik only G would be least likely to fire ppl, they gave very generous chance to employees to improve and would only do 'piping' as the last option. But all the others have various forms of stack ranking and aggressive piping mechanism.
I would assume many other companies do the same