[stingraycharles]

Depends; these would seem like the kind of decisions that affect the long term a lot more than the short term.

In the long term, this could severely impact the perception of Google for prospective employees, which in turn could hinder their ability to hire talent.

They spent decades building the image of “one of the best” employers for skilled software engineers, and they could potentially throw that away with just a few bad decisions.

It’s precisely because they’re still making boatloads of money that this makes even less sense.

[riku_iki]

> In the long term, this could severely impact the perception of Google for prospective employees, which in turn could hinder their ability to hire talent.

it could be opposite, talents usually interested in challenging work with appropriate rewards, while current message is about cutting mediocre employees.

[effingwewt]

Every comment I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and then watching you squander it.

No engineer worth their salt is going to work for these companies after this. The 'mediocre employees' as you put it are exactly what GP was talking about.

It's victim blaming at its finest. Remember- google only hires the very best.

You are shilling so hard you've now entered complete fallacy territory. You are not just making stuff up to fit your narrative, you are actively ignoring the truth and that's destructive to the conversation.

And I'm saying all this as someone who for years warned people about what was coming. Still, they are not to be blamed as all this started with the C-suite and management all going on hiring sprees for no better reason than to deprive the competition of workers.

They infantilized their workforce and made them as dependent as possible.

They attached golden handcuffs which started the whole rest and vest situation.

They are to blame, not the workers all about to be put on PIPs.

Tell google PR to come up with something better, or at least something that doesn't fly in the face of the facts everyone can see with their own eyes.

The sky is not purple. The emperor is wearing no clothes.

[riku_iki]

I guess you are the one who received pip.

[effingwewt]

Sick burn, man you really destroyed my argument with that one sentence.

I'd have to work for a bigco to get put on a pip.

I can see now you are just trolling in bad faith, come back when you have an actual thought to elucidate.

[riku_iki]

So, what exactly management did wrong in your opinion?