Layoff culture at other companies?
I haven’t worked for IBM for long, we got acquired. But it seems that each quarter layoffs come down the pipe. Is this common practice amongst other big tech companies? IBM seems to want to compete with tech companies for staff like FB Google etc and I’m wondering if these types of companies or other large companies use layoffs as regularly.
Common in Cisco
It’s common for any tech company still dominated by leaders who hopped on the “Jack Welch is the greatest CEO ever” train in the 90s.
Adobe used to lay off every November, right around thanksgiving. Lay off criteria was not clear so every holiday, we used to feel anxious. Very bad practice. Now, they just do it little by little, still a lot of layoff but most ppl don’t know as it’s not company wide. Vulnerable positions seem to be program managers and QE.
Doesnt happen here...we hardly hire, and the best
Layoff happen at companies that are shrinking or stagnating. Otherwise people are fired strictly for performance reason. A layoff is just a reverse headcount.
+1 look at the companies laying off constantly. They are all stagnant.
Shadow layoffs are common across all the big and glorious tech firms that promise utopia.
Microsoft is also big on layoffs ...entire teams at times for no better reason than politics. Seems no policing or awareness of the impact on employee morale.
Amazon is laying off and they aren’t stagnant, just over-hired for wrong businesses.
It’s common here