Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 people

Re:Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 ... by thfuran on Sunday May 12, 2024 @10:19AM (#40334693)

And as an interviewer, winning means not hiring the sort of person who's going to do the absolute bare minimum, because then you'd have to suffer through working with them.

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Re:Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 ... by greenyoda on Sunday May 12, 2024 @11:02AM (#40335047)

Hiring someone who works competently and efficiently for eight hours a day could be better for the company than hiring someone who works twice as long but is not as competent or focused.

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Re:Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 ... by sokoloff on Sunday May 12, 2024 @11:59AM (#40335447)

Of course!

My experience is people who have the attitude of doing the bare minimum do not have “works competently and efficiently for eight hours a day” as a target in mind when they say that.

For a lot of engineering work, competent and diligent for 30 hours per week could easily out-perform 40.

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Re:Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 ... by paulcole on Sunday May 12, 2024 @10:24AM (#40334718)

Yes and your goal also isn’t to hire a person who’s so ambitious and such a go-getter that they’ll hate your dysfunctional organization and leave super fast.

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