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Re:Splunk to Cut Workforce by 7% After Cisco Deal by shmatt on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @10:13AM (#38098440)
Not challenging peoples capabilities doesn't scale well. Did you ever hire someone with 0 interviews, just because they work for another good company? Then why do that after M&A?

Its not unusual for the force cuts to be done via interviews at the new company

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Re:Splunk to Cut Workforce by 7% After Cisco Deal by konradb on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @10:23AM (#38098574)
> Then why do that after M&A?

Presumably if you trust the organisation enough to pay for the whole thing, you would have a measure of trust in their ability to hire?

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Re:Splunk to Cut Workforce by 7% After Cisco Deal by anotherhue on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @10:45AM (#38098876)
Depends what you’re really paying for. If it’s about the IP, the market access, or a particular individual (seen this myself) then the rest of the org might be dead weight.
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Re:Splunk to Cut Workforce by 7% After Cisco Deal by tedivm on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @10:56AM (#38099019)
You're misreading my statement. My point is that they didn't do interviews. They just gave everyone absolutely crap offers, without actually interviewing or evaluating individuals. Hiring people with 0 interviews just because they worked for the purchased company is exactly what happened, and they did it in such a way that people were grossly under leveled.
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