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Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by ken47 on Thursday January 11, 2024 @07:24AM (#38951287)
Pretty sure that if you have glowing perf reviews, your job is safe. The "best engineers" you're talking about were the best by which metrics, and why are they so different from the metrics that execs used to determine who to let go?

If they are indeed superior engineers, and your company is bad at evaluating talent, then they did a huge favor to these engineers by laying them off. Trust me.

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Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by HarHarVeryFunny on Thursday January 11, 2024 @10:25AM (#38953444)
> Pretty sure that if you have glowing perf reviews, your job is safe.

No, because when large corps want to reduce head count/payroll, it often comes as a top down directive for every group to trim by X%...

In this type of environment being good at your job doesn't help - after a few cycles of these types of layoff all that are left are the better people, and the next X% layoff will be them.

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Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by AtNightWeCode on Thursday January 11, 2024 @02:58PM (#38958059)
Exactly, I had the best performance review ever at a corp I worked at. Did not make much difference when they reorganized.
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