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Re:Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Resu... by epolanski on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @05:52PM (#39197069)
Google used to be exactly like that up to a decade ago. Talent was considered core for the org so you would be relocated rather than cut off.

Values shifted with the focus on earnings and growth getting less impressive.

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Re:Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Resu... by Jensson on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @11:44PM (#39200034)
Rewarding managers by headcount is like rewarding software engineers per line of code, yes, but that is how basically every company rewards managers.

Imagine how obnoxious code reviews would be if everyone wanted to submit as many lines as possible for their salary to go up, that is how management headcount requests works today.

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