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Reading this and then seeing how the same corps fire people by the thousand without any fault of theirs, and also knowing if I sent them the resume they'd probably not even notice it (not that I actually want to work at any of them but maybe Netflix, but still), gives me really eerie impression. I'm old enough to be fine with a lot of things in life making no sense. But this involves a lot of obviously very smart people, who control trillions of dollars, and yet it all makes so little sense... Why must it be so wrong?
Generally, this is layoffs, not firing. It's about juicing the stock and moving employees to lower cost areas, not about firing for performance. Re-orgs are also good for your resume as the person doing the re-org: I figure it's like when I refactor the codebase to be leaner, just with people instead of code. Lines deleted are still part of the
git diff --statcount, so reorg layoffs are by analogy good.The difficulty of firing is more about aversion to lawsuits for wrongful termination/discrimination. He was in some protected classes, which idk if lengthened timelines. I don't think so honestly. As much as I'd love to be able to say I think he was a diversity hire or treated more easily because of it, because I do think that happens in general not infrequently, I think this was actually all just par for the course megacorp inefficiency and incentives.
E.g. the actual answer to how did he get promoted is almost certainly that it'd been a reasonable amount of time, and it looks good for everyone for him to get promoted, so he did. I think that doesn't happen as much with the later promotions - the bar for senior seems genuinely high to me (although we'll see what I have to say in 97 minutes after I get my news) - but consider that without the entry -> mid promotion, one is fired by about the 4 year mark.
The ignoring of resumes is weird. I referred a hilariously well qualified friend and he didn't even get a recruiter phonescreen.
I applied to major corps (FAANG, MS, etc.) several times over the years, and I knew I am at least qualified enough to get the interview (I think qualified enough to do like 90% of tech jobs they have, but that's just my opinion) but the only time I ever got a call back was when it was a referral through a specific person to a specific team (not that it always worked - I had several referrals that led to nothing at all). I got an offer then, decided not to go for it, no regrets about it - but I am just wondering, how do they actually source? Is that just random luck? Is there a secret code? Is there some criteria I miss? I mean I'd be fine if they talked to me and said no thanks. But there's never even a call back, ever. Not that I really need it - of the FAANG five I probably would only consider Netflix - but I'd like to understand the process.
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