Google never fired me. Google isn't pure evil. Its problem is that, since its inception, it's had the attitude that engineering is smart people work and everything else (design, HR, people management) is stupid people…
We do not even use numeric scores any more. I've heard this from more than one source. You can thank me for that. I embarrassed their performance review system, and it started costing them money in increased recruiting…
Oh for fuck's sake. The word "queynte" is probably related to the word "cunt" (and the word "quaint") but it's a different word. It doesn't even mean "vagina" although it was euphemistically used that way in and after…
My information is as of 2011. When I was there, the percentage who had to fail fluctuated between 3 and 5 percent, based on market conditions, but I'd heard that it was higher than 5% in 2008-- a dishonest layoff under…
Google never fired me. Google isn't pure evil. Its problem is that, since its inception, it's had the attitude that engineering is smart people work and everything else (design, HR, people management) is stupid people…
We do not even use numeric scores any more. I've heard this from more than one source. You can thank me for that. I embarrassed their performance review system, and it started costing them money in increased recruiting…
Oh for fuck's sake. The word "queynte" is probably related to the word "cunt" (and the word "quaint") but it's a different word. It doesn't even mean "vagina" although it was euphemistically used that way in and after…
My information is as of 2011. When I was there, the percentage who had to fail fluctuated between 3 and 5 percent, based on market conditions, but I'd heard that it was higher than 5% in 2008-- a dishonest layoff under…