Multiple sources like below state layoffs will happen based on performance. We recently saw SCI quotas get filled via grad. Do you think they’ll layoff people who got SCI in one shot or will it be the long PIP process to fire on individual basis? Link - https://www.analyticsinsight.net/google-layoffs-in-early-2023-to-fire-low-ranking-category-employees/ TC - $420k #layoff
It has been shown that layoffs based on performance aren't allowed. These would have to be done on an individual basis if the performance is the reason.
So you just don’t say it, and communicate outward that it wasn’t, and you can chop off all the low performers in one giant swoop.
Lyft is right. As someone who has seen 3 layoffs in the last 14 months.
It’s a recession time … if they don’t fire they will get fired by investors ..
Here is my take. L3s cost nothing to hire more and on average they contribute negatively to productivity. L4s are harder to hire and the ramp up is harder. L5s cost even more to hire and ramp up, L6s and up are expensive to replace but we have more than enough of them already. So it will be based on level then performance. Average L4s and L5s should be fine, L3s and poor performing L4 and above could be in danger.
If they do layoffs, would the signed offers be rescinded? What do you folks think?
Depends on the department, Amazon still onboards some new people even as it lays off others. Others did have offers cancelled.
So far it looks like it will be exactly the same scenario as Meta’s layoff, as pre-layoff exercise with marking employees with performance flags 100% match. Was performance flag the only criteria? Definitely not.
Enough of this bullshit. Flagged and blocked.
Flaggers are pathetic
Layoffs WILL happen. Based on what? What a clown.
“Multiple sources” that always seem to point back to the same unfounded speculation based on the fact that our performance management system changed recently. Given these economic times, a layoff for cost trimming is certainly possible but there’s no evidence out there yet…
Yes, TC is TOP in Google's understanding of performance.
It’s always performance whether they say it or not….
Believe me it is not always based on performance. My company recently did a 8% reduction in IT and they mostly targeted Sr Directors and those with high TC. They were probably looking at head count. I know many who doesn’t have any work to do. The decisions were made high up, even the Directors and Sr Directors were not aware of this. One of my team mate was brought back because the VPs probably don’t know who is crucial and they made a hasty decision
Sure, it’s not a perfect science, but I can ensure you that at top tier companies, they don’t get rid of their best people in a layoff. They’ll do a sweep of bottom performers and throw in a few sacrificial lambs with them. Sometimes you’re just bad at your job. Sometimes your team isn’t working on anything crucial. Sometimes your TC is just too god damn high. Sometimes you’re just unlucky. But always, most of the laid off people were low performers.