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Re:To the Board of Directors of OpenAI from former employees by shmatt on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @03:59PM (#38370031)
> OpenAI's employee attrition rate between January 2018 and July 2020 was in the order of 50%.

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> Those who questioned this practice were dismissed as "bad culture fits" and even terminated, some just before Thanksgiving 2019.

Would be pretty easy to verify, and could be concerning (mostly the 50% part)

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Re:To the Board of Directors of OpenAI from former employees by nickff on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @04:03PM (#38370089)
A median tenure of 2.5 years seems pretty good, compared to those employees likes other options; Amazon's average is only one year. https://amazonbound.medium.com/why-amazons-attrition-is-high...
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Re:To the Board of Directors of OpenAI from former employees by xena on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @04:03PM (#38370084)
A 50% attrition rate is worse than fast food hourly work.
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Re:To the Board of Directors of OpenAI from former employees by jeffwiederkehr on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @04:08PM (#38370150)
I managed fast food restaurants prior to becoming a SWE and our target turnover was 130% annually so not quite to that level.
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Re:To the Board of Directors of OpenAI from former employees by FormerBandmate on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @04:03PM (#38370086)
OpenAI went through at least one purge, Musk founded it but famously is no longer associated with it. There’s a huge amount of board turnover, it would be interesting to see the causes behind that
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