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Depends on the company and management. Google codifies this role to some extent as Tech Lead, which is an engineer expected to act as a force multiplier and mentor more than an ind…

I chuckled at the implication that BAH's work has any value to begin with.

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Came here to post about LCM too, amazing place. Sadly "in stasis" is pretty generous. I know several people who were in that win of the Allen org and they've all said that Jody All…

I worked in a part of Amazon that had a lot of ability to help detect and flag this sort of fraud. I had to fight hard to get even a proof of concept project greenlit. There was ex…

Maria Bamford is excited. But not too excited.

My answer is yes to all of the questions.

People making $250k on average getting laid off is admittedly less of a tragedy than people making $75k on average getting laid off. The former would have more opportunity to save …

Yeah, I hate the way they were conducted but can't think of a better way that wouldn't open the company up to a lot of risk. I'm not convinced that announcing them in advance is ac…

> Consider this: you have a high-performer and a low-performer. You have a mandate to reduce your team size by 1. Who do you choose? This isn't how layoffs work. They don't to go e…

> You are not privy to either the list of employees who were let go or their historical performance reviews I know this local to my org. I can say first-hand that most low performe…

I'll temper my general "layoffs must be done without regard to performance" into a more specific "in this case, layoffs were done with at most marginal regard to performance". Goog…

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/layoff.asp First sentence: "A layoff is the temporary or permanent termination of employment by an employer for reasons unrelated to the employ…

Current Googler, I have no insider info at all, found out about this the same Friday morning as everyone else. Everything expressed here is speculation based on my own observations…

Not so sure. I was in a research lab at a similar school a couple decades ago. There were two staff lab assistants (not sure they'd be considered administrators by any stretch), an…

Counterpoint: you don't have enough good metrics.

That said, serious competition would also be good for Google. The maps org is still huge but a lot of what they are doing is tiny iterative improvements these days, not enough swin…

And yet, here you are.

Managers are heavily expected to keep growing their team(s). A manager whose team is flat in terms of size and scope year over year is going to be viewed as underperforming, even i…

Part of the issue is they can't/won't compete on comp or benefits with other big tech companies, but still have high-ish standards on hiring, relative to the industry as a whole. T…

My perspective after five years in tech management: Effective managers from a pure tech background tend to have happy, functional teams that get things done well and add a lot of l…

I think he's cherry piketting data.

So to some degree that's preaching to the choir around here; I still use emacs extensively and adore it, but I'd also never wish it upon anyone who doesn't value work efficiency ov…

To call this rose-tinted glasses when considering how things worked in 1983 is a massive understatement. A counterexample: in 1983, enter two search terms, one of them slightly mis…

I'm at Amazon now, my team is fairly shitty - let's say in the bottom third of engineering teams anyone at the company would want to work for - and the average tenure of people on …