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by zigzigzag 3513 days ago
Without a doubt that stat is because these companies have grown so fast. It's not that people leave after a year, it's that they have added tons of engineers in the last year (and have done so repeatedly for the last few years).

I worked at Google. Turnover was really low. 10 year average stay doesn't sound unreasonable for me if you select only the employees that have left.
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pzh 3512 days ago
Maybe I misunderstand the metric, but isn't turnout calculated as the average tenure of people who leave? If the companies just add more engineers, this shouldn't affect the metric (unless you also count the tenure of people who are actually still working there, but that doesn't sound like a good way to estimate churn rate...)

If that's the case, it seems there is quite a bit of confusion about this: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2013-07-29/why-are-g...

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zigzigzag 3512 days ago
You didn't quote turnover figures, you quoted average time on the job.
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