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Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by pjc50 on Friday January 20, 2023 @11:52AM (#34455893)
> fat trimming exercise

The company that is most notorious for having an aggressively difficult interview process has "fat"? How?

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Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by AdrianB1 on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:39PM (#34456656)
Hiring process is never perfect, you find after 6-12 months you made a mistake. I saw that many times, I did that myself 3 times (hired people that were later fired, even after being promoted, as they did not perform well even if they were really good on paper and in interviews).
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Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by ipaddr on Friday January 20, 2023 @01:12PM (#34457202)
Perhaps the interview process is not as good as they think.
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Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by perfecthjrjth on Friday January 20, 2023 @01:36PM (#34457598)
How did they get promoted, when they did not perform well?
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Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by AdrianB1 on Sunday January 22, 2023 @06:09PM (#34483340)
Diversity targets.
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Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by mathteddybear on Friday January 20, 2023 @02:27PM (#34458423)
No hiring process prevents bad oncall rotations.
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