[billconan]

One of my best friends landed a job at Google after graduation. She told me about a fellow new hire she met during orientation who said she planned to coast along in the job since she had learned that Google never lays people off.

I guess there is no such thing as a completely secure job, even at a company like Google.

[disfadbish]

They have always fired people for under performing though.

[seanmcdirmid]

And large scale layoffs often don't take into account performance (they just cut teams).

[compiler-guy]

Underperforming people are routinely managed out or just plain let go. It's not unusual at all.

[zvonimirs]

Horrible. Where I'm from, we call those people uhljebi and they're the worst people to work with since they always look for ways to offload their work to others.