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Xsolla fires 150 employees using analysis of chat and email activity

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Re: Xsolla fires 150 employees using analysis of chat and email activity

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Post by pts_ »

bgro wrote: post #87
TimSchumann wrote: post #7

Reminds me of a story I heard from a friend. Some consulting firm came in to the company and decided, based on number of commits (or some such metric), that one particular engineer was the lowest performing engineer on the team. So, management fired them. Turns out that engineer was the one who everyone side-channeled with to get help when blocked. They were the one who knew the system best and were enabling everyone…

I was the go-to on almost every team at my last job when there was a hotfix, major risk change, security fix, etc. I knew the whole system pretty well and knew how to find and match up our awful logging to actual code and find the flaw far faster than anybody. I'd develop and test a fix and quietly discuss with that team's tech lead about risk vs reward concerns to see if they agree or want to discuss changes, then I…

Career management enters the chat. Play blame game nothing gets done.

Re: Xsolla fires 150 employees using analysis of chat and email activity

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Post by dxf »

skeeter2020 wrote: post #88
dxf wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Long ago, he joined a company fresh out of college that pretty much measured dev productivity with number of lines written. He quickly realized that it was a red-flag, but jumping ship so soon was going to be hard to explain on a resume. Sorry to hijack your comment, but I would like to say: There are many, many good reasons why someone would want to quit a job after only a short period of time at a company (harassm…

It's still a red flag that needs to be explained. Unfortunately most employees will assume they did not leave voluntarily. The OP's reticence to jump is understandable

But that's my point. It shouldn't be a red flag on the candidate, and shouldn't need to be explained.

Re: Xsolla fires 150 employees using analysis of chat and email activity

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Post by MattGaiser »

honkycat wrote: post #94

I know everyone will think I am crazy, but I actually like to get work done at work, and I am so fucking sick of everyone bunking off and never being available with the change to remote work! It is a real problem! People are just bunking off and not working! I also saw this when people were in office, however. Eventually, some people just stop doing work completely and coast until they are noticed or find a new org t…

> and never being available with the change to remote work!

Were they more available in the office? In my last job, the senior developer was rarely available and people complained about that while remote.

But because he was always in meetings or explaining things to management or fixing things that nobody else understood, he wasn't more available in the office either.

People just understood that he was probably in a meeting if not at his desk, but didn't make that connection with Slack.

Re: Xsolla fires 150 employees using analysis of chat and email activity

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Post by cycomanic »

>“We want all our employees to think daily about how their actions and decisions affect the company’s fate and success because we have very ambitious goals in the coming years; it is one of Xsolla’s values and it is reflected in everything — from operating standards to compensation system,”

Oh the irony

Re: Xsolla fires 150 employees using analysis of chat and email activity

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Post by mgh2 »

pts_ wrote: post #101
bgro wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was the go-to on almost every team at my last job when there was a hotfix, major risk change, security fix, etc. I knew the whole system pretty well and knew how to find and match up our awful logging to actual code and find the flaw far faster than anybody. I'd develop and test a fix and quietly discuss with that team's tech lead about risk vs reward concerns to see if they agree or want to discuss changes, then I…

Career management enters the chat. Play blame game nothing gets done.

Management had low understanding of correlation vs. causation.

This reminds me of one of Udacity's first classes: do firefighters cause fires? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku9E9uKyr4E

Re: Xsolla fires 150 employees using analysis of chat and email activity

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Post by stkdump »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #31
darkstar999 wrote: post #15

> we will help you find a good place, where you will earn more and work even less Wow you're really selling it for us. PR nightmare.

It sounds great, honestly. Sounds like his employees are working more for less pay. I know he's insulting his employees but still pretty awesome if he actually found a better position for his people. Who doesn't want to make more and work less? I wish I could make money while doing nothing.

What about this:

> If you want to stay in contact with me, please write me a long letter about all your observations, injustice, and gratitude.

Still nothing on your sarcasm detector?

Re: Xsolla fires 150 employees using analysis of chat and email activity

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Post by dilyevsky »

trhway wrote: post #81

A bit of Russian color. The CEO FB posts in Russian: - the 1st, sounding great in Russian, yet hard to translate, is "work energetically like f&cking or f&ck off" - the 2nd is "looking for a great PR professional in Russia" https://vc.ru/hr/277765-glava-xsolla-obyasnil-massovye-uvoln... While without directly offensive words, not like the FB posts above, his message firing the people is still written in a very insult…

The comment about twitch revamping their regional pay structure and gutting xsolla revenue stream in the process seems quite insightful

Re: Xsolla fires 150 employees using analysis of chat and email activity

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Post by kthejoker2 »

toofy wrote: post #64

We’re still incredibly limited in what behaviors do and don’t increase a teams productivity. I’ve worked in groups where some of the least productive people were also maybe the most valuable. Very strong in keeping cohesion and moral up inside the team. Whether it was the way they smiled or greeted people when they saw them or the way they just knew how to spot someone who was tangling with a problem and instinctivel…

Agree, high performing teams are a mixture, not a solution.

Re: Xsolla fires 150 employees using analysis of chat and email activity

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Post by mgh2 »

cratermoon wrote: post #39

Busyness is not productivity. But organizations have a history of using metrics that measure 'busyness' when they say they are measuring productivity. Things like how often you are seen at the water cooler or chatting with a co-worker, how quickly you respond to communications, how quickly can you be reached, any time, anywhere, whenever someone wants to reach you. https://maxfrenzel.medium.com/in-praise-of-deep-work…

I hope remote work fixes this by getting rid of the bs.
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