points by newswasboring 1 day ago | 0 comments
I have the most naive question, why not change this if they know this? American companies regularly do restructuring and layoffs. Why can't these whales be dealt with that way?
Edit: I want to add I'm not naive enough to think they can just fire senior people willy nilly. I could have worded the question better but I hope people understand the spirit of it. I understand there must be reasons why this is hard to solve, I am looking to understand why it's hard.
[–] booty 1 day ago
[–] plaguuuuuu 1 day ago
It's not hard, it's just that silicon valley is obsessed with quantitative metrics, which are fucking stupid.
Just make a judgement call. It might be completely wrong a small % of the time, which is better than being mostly wrong all of the time.
I imagine this is compounded by the fact that anybody who has risen to control of a fiefdom at a prestigious place at Google is surely highly intelligent, driven, and is either highly competent or at least highly adept at projecting competence. I can't imagine spectacularly obvious dunces rise to such heights at Google.
To be clear... I'm a million miles from Google and have zero inside knowledge, just speculating