[rqtwteye]

"I don’t think dropping the lowest 10% of developers is hurting your output. It might even raise it."

I have seen a few mass layoffs while I was contractor at different companies. Most of these big layoffs weren't performance based but they axed whole departments. Another group at danger were managers that didn't actually manage anybody. they were either demoted or let go. But in general I didn't get the impression that the layoffs were about performance. It was more about being lucky and being at the right place at the right time.