[AnimalMuppet]

IIRC, they had (maybe still have?) a policy of laying off the bottom 5%. Every year. For a company that size, it's a lot of engineers.

But yes, that probably does not make it a psychologically safe place to work...

[PaulHoule]

It's a dangerous policy because the one person who never gets laid off is the narcissist who is good at managing people's impressions of them.