Re:Blizzard Lays Off 600, Including About 60 Developers
by marshray on Thursday March 01, 2012 @12:00PM
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Just out of curiosity, have you ever actually been a software developer at a place where someone you worked with was fired on a regular basis?
Have you ever been a team manager where you'd get an email from the higher-ups saying "give me someone's head" on a regular basis?
And to be fair, an ideally managed company would actually have this happen every once in a while. A company like Blizz that has no problems hiring really should drop the bottom 10% of employees periodically and find replacements if needed. I doubt that's the real motivator here, but cutting 10% of employees isn't a bad thing at all as long as the people were picked properly.