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by wintogreen74 1063 days ago
A company the size of Alphabet "shedding" 5-10K employees is a notable but still minor adjustment in the grand scheme of things.
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No, it isn't. Details matter, and if they hiring even 1% too many people, then what else are they getting wrong by 1%? And how many of those things?

The key is that they wouldn't know either. It could be a slow 'death by a thousand cuts' and they wouldn't even know they were bleeding.

This is why companies, even massive companies, generally die eventually. There are very few that last even 50 years without eventually being acquired or bankrupt. And how does it start? Little mistakes, lack of focus, everywhere.

> then what else are they getting wrong by 1%?

They could get 1000 things wrong by 1% and they're still 1% wrong. You can't really add them up.