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xynix_ie t1_j4rrga0 wrote

They broke past 150k employees in 2020, now they're at 221k according to the article.

I've spend 20+ years working for giant tech. This is normal even in boom years. I swear every time we would cull the fat we would see a headline like this. It's why we moved cull month to March but then it would be "do layoffs indicate a bad quarter for XXXX?!?!"

No. We just had too many underperformers and we needed to cull and often times that reached 5% which we would fill back up through the year until the next culling.

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bastardoperator t1_j4scpza wrote

I'd disagree. I've worked for multiple fortune 15 companies. You don't fire percentages of people because they're under performers. Hiring is insanely expensive. That's the excuse executives use to justify downsizing and shift blame. The entire purpose of letting people go is to cut costs and if you look at where costs are cut, it's to underperforming areas of the business or portions of the business that produce no revenue like HR, which this article mentions.

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