[throwaway23597]

To play devil's advocate, in the case of a company like Google, it's unclear whether or not execution actually gets much slower. From what I hear the amount of people coasting or even distracting teammates with negativity is pretty high, cutting such people might even speed up execution in the net.

As for Fuchsia as a product I'm not really sure what exactly it is so if possible I'd love a 411 from any HNers with know-how.

[yafbum]

From my contacts at Google, the cuts don't appear to be strongly correlated to poor performance, rest & vest attitude, negativity, etc. It has been messaged by company leaders as "role eliminations", not as "dropping underperformers", so it doesn't give anyone a reason to work harder.

[oblio]

> I'd love a 411 from any HNers with know-how

What's a 411?

[defrost]

Parochial north american slang originating from local directory assistance phone number in Canada and the United States.

Equiv. to give me the details, the lowdown, fill me in, etc.

[vineyardmike]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-1-1

Commonly used as "information"

[deaddodo]

Eh, better translated as “a summary” or “abstract” here.

[saalweachter]

411 was a phone service that you could call and ask basic questions to and a human operator would look up answers for you.

Kind of a primitive version of Google.

[patwolf]

Anyone remember GOOG-411? During the days before smart phones, you'd call a phone number and do a Google search via voice.

My favorite part was that the sound it made while waiting for the results was a human making robotic beep-boop sounds.