My team has 10 engineers, but we only ever have work for 5 or 6. Engineers on team aren’t rockstars either. Pretty mediocre imho. One worker is on a work-visa and may have to go back to their country if they are laid off, provided they can’t find a job within a certain timeframe. I want to be helpful, but also practical. The others are not on work-visas. Company has money/team has a big budget, but I wonder if it could be put to better use. TC >450k #layoff #google #facebook #amazon #citadel #meta #lyft #uber #apple #pinterest #microsoft #salesforce #tesla
You’re probably the first honest manager I’ve seen on Blind.
So your team has a big budget and you’re not being pressured to lay off team but you want to anyway?
You explain the situation to them and unofficially give them some time to move on
Why would you layoff your future VPs?
What do you get out of shrinking the team? Since you said the budget is enough
He gets the same productivity by cutting costs aka leeches aka waste of space. Call me toxic but I hate when I’m working and half the team members don’t do shit. I’m ok with coasters but straight up abuse is annoying af. Especially when they ask for help
What if all 10 people are putting in approximately same effort?
Performance manage the low performers and backfill with A players
Can you offer contributions to another team by yours? Something to show output/delivery so you can retain your folks for the day when you may get overloaded? I'm surprised there's no program management that tracks velocity and team roadmap estimates.
Tell your leadership you don’t have enough work for your team. Get them to give you some nice projects. Or get funding for those cool ideas from your backlog that no one ever got around to doing.
Tell team members nicely to be more productive.
Are you sundar Pichai burner ?
Well Pichai did the right thing.