we were just cut off with 10000 people.
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> we were just cut off with 10000 people by random selection algorithm.
Can you (or anyone) elaborate on how that works? Someone wrote something that does "select empolyee_id from employees limit 10000 order by random" and that's who got laid off? It's a layoff lottery and the winners got laid off?
I don't know how layoffs at huge companies work, maybe that's how it works everywhere?
In my huge company, we've seen all sort of cases. Very recent employees (which weren't even evaluated yet), "low performers" (but I think it's a misnomer, some "low performers" are productive employees who recently didn't meet some arbitrary expectations). Some entire teams were fired, in some instances they tried to reassign some high performers within these teams.
Also managers weren't consulted, and everything was kept secret.
Edit: some countries have additional legal constraints too and the process may be more transparent than in the US.
Shrug. Superstars cost more. Besides, companies don't love superstars do they? They want replaceable commodities.
First, each department is usually allocated a number of employees they should layoff (based on high management priority).
Then, each department has to decide how to allocate it internally (cut-off teams entirely, or layoff a number of employees per team).
Then it goes to mid level management and lower management which has to choose specific employees (based on a number of criterias but usually based on performance).
No competent business operator works this way. It's very much about improving a financial metric (say, sales efficiency) and understanding either where low performers are or which teams are supporting initiatives that may suddenly be deprioritized.
But more importantly than any of this, I'm sorry to hear people have lost their jobs. Better days are ahead.
I think large tech companies do an exceptional job supporting employees. But of course, for the person affected, still scary nevertheless. My heart goes out for those people.
COBRA is specific to the US? Related to extend some sort of private health care coverage they had under the employer?
And H1B are for non-Americans who were allowed to stay on the condition of having an employer?
Could you clarify what the conditions are for california? How many months of salary is covered? How immediate is the effect of termination in terms of "pack your bags". Etc
Don't they have that everywhere? The Human Computer Interaction deparment at the (European) university I went have both Master and PhD students and do all kinds of UI and UX related research.
Is this true? Did they tell you this when you were laid off? If so, that's absolutely bonkers
Anyways best of luck
