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Re:Biggest layoffs of 2023: Firms fired employees in jaw-dro... by _heimdall on Saturday December 30, 2023 @07:19AM (#38814712)
That's actually what I'd be interested to learn. Presumably if a company can't fire someone easily they would have been motivated to find better predictors of future job success than a few short interviews.

Anecdotally I've seen companies skip even that process and hire anyone who seems even slightly qualified. The bar for "better hiring practices" is pretty low for me when the examples I've seen over 20 years in tech are either hire anyone to fill seats or throw obscure logic problems at candidates assuming that maps well to the role being hired for.

Re:Biggest layoffs of 2023: Firms fired employees in jaw-dro... by oblio on Saturday December 30, 2023 @09:19AM (#38815444)
Trial periods. In Luxembourg they're 6 months. You can be sent packing with 1-2 weeks notice, no questions asked.
Re:Biggest layoffs of 2023: Firms fired employees in jaw-dro... by _heimdall on Saturday December 30, 2023 @04:24PM (#38819311)
Yep, sounds like that's way more common in Europe than the US. I'm actually at a small US company now that hires this way as well, I just hadn't seen any larger companies over here doing it this way.