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0 pointsBeetleB8y ago0 comments

His statement could be read both ways. If you keep low performing people, it can suck the life of the team. I've personally seen teams where the top people lower their standards and outputs because they have low performing members in the team, and if the management doesn't care enough about the impact they have on the team, they will not work hard to make a good product.

OTOH, I do think firing is a bit of a last resort. A lot of people can be coached to perform better. I support firing as a last resort when other reasonable methods have failed.

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scarface748y ago

I thought "coaching" was the answer to. I came in as a tech lead where one "developer" hired by a previous regime didn't know how to write a JavaScript function and just couldn't logically figure out how to debug an issue and the other just couldn't focus on a problem and went way out in left field on the simplest tasks.

We got rid of both of them as part of a "restructuring". I've had to cut a few contractors short because they just couldn't handle what for all intents and purposes was a startup environment where everything was up in the air and we needed people who could adapt, figure things out, and learn fast without holding their hands.

In a place like Netflix, everything is brand new. No one in history has ever had to deal with the scale that they have to.

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