Katie Sylor-MillerWelp, I got laid off today along with 40% of Block. I’m still totally in shock an have no idea what comes next, but if you have need for a Principal Frontend Engineer hit me up!
Sarah E Bourne@ksylor Oh no!
@sbourne yeah, it’s a total shock. We just had layoffs 2 weeks ago where ~300 engineers were let go. So this massive cut was just totally unexpected
Drew Pickard@ksylor
That is insane.
Layoffs is one thing but doung a small one before a big one means someone in leadership massively fucked up.
That is insane.
Layoffs is one thing but doung a small one before a big one means someone in leadership massively fucked up.
@drewpickard yeah the “small” one was because they suddenly instituted minimum PR count numbers *during calibration* and increased the required percentage of “below meets” to be like, 15%% instead of 7%, and then fired everyone in below because they were a “low performer”. So we all thought we were done & safe for a bit, but nope.
Revin Guillen@ksylor @drewpickard omg! simple-minded metrics suuuuuck. I got dinged once at a gig years ago because my PR count was “low”, without even considering that maybe I didn’t need to follow every feature up with 3–5 bug fix PRs because I actually created quality stuff the first time around…?