This has been the message for all these layoffs - thousands of people. How many low performers did Google hire? Where's the accountability at the leadership level for this failure?
if it's a percentage based cut then it's predetermined in a sense. leadership is just doing this as a blood sacrifice to the animal spirits of the market.
This is absolutely not a "low performer prune." This is cost-saving bullshit.
They're explicitly letting go of high ranking staff in high wage metros. The talent and the institutional knowledge of some of those people makes the decision flabbergasting.
If you click over to the Python thread, you'll see that the victims include a member of the Python Steering Council and the maintainers of PyType. These aren't low-performers; they're people who are an integral part of the Python community.
Integral part of python community != valuable to a corporation right? I don't see how things not related to job duties or generating profit for a company are points against "low performer" label
You don't see how having the people whose job it is to maintain a large company's Python infrastructure be literal members of the Python governing council is "valuable" or "related to job duties"?
From the pytype homepage:
> Thousands of projects at Google rely on pytype to keep their Python code well-typed and error-free.
Isn't this just like Microsoft, skimming the bottom X% off? They might be great software developers, but an organisation that always skims off the lowest X% percent in an attempt to only keep awesome and 10X developers.
Google hired way too much during pandemic. From what I hear from G friends, this is likely a low performer prune.