So, what are the criteria for layoffs? I mean real criteria. What’s the strategy here? Anything smarter than cost cuts? Any connection between long-term plans and the current criteria for layoffs? It all seems to me that thinking doesn’t go beyond tomorrow.
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If you were successful and expensive on the payroll. You’re gone. A recent college grad with a degree in frisbee is taking your job at 1/3 your cost
If you're building teams to tackle AI based solutions do you want teams of people who graduated recently from these programs:
` https://www.cio.com/article/350315/top-10-ai-graduate-degree-programs.html`
or do you want Travis the slack jawed 60 year old Principal Engineer who can't write a correct five line function with millions of dollars of build systems worldwide that could have been used to test it? No, they're never represented as pseudo-code but sometimes they are represented as a substitute for what should have been 50 pages of requirements, which they're not.
There are certainly other demo’s also targeted in other parts of the company. Age might be a factor with a disinclination to learning.
AI is a new tooling which will require learning and re-learning some things - if people appear reluctant to learn new stuff or unable to for whatever reason makes them a target in my mind. In favor of peers that are always ready to pick up tools to go do something else.
50+. Male and White are the criteria in my VP's area according ro the stats.