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blsapologist42
·vorig jaar·discuss
You might be confused by the CPI. The GDP is actually adjusted using a different measure of inflation (the "GDP deflator"), which looks at the actual purchases made in the country over that period. There's not really any "reasonable" alternative calculations to be made there.
blsapologist42
·vorig jaar·discuss
They used to have a higher bar before 2020, but since then it's been a bit soft. I think this is mostly a return to that earlier time.
blsapologist42
·vorig jaar·discuss
Why wouldn't you wait until the vest?
blsapologist42
·vorig jaar·discuss
I think most companies would be jealous of this sort of "downfall".
blsapologist42
·vorig jaar·discuss
You're absolutely right. However, 5% is so low that it's hard to believe that there isn't at least that many underperoformers.
blsapologist42
·vorig jaar·discuss
The 80s were a reaction to the "liberal" 70s. It's just the natural cycle of history, the majority of people are in the center so when culture shifts too far to one side they start pushing it back.
blsapologist42
·vorig jaar·discuss
The majority of people are in the center. That's kind of how distributions work.
blsapologist42
·vorig jaar·discuss
The goal is to replace that 5% with new hires, resulting in higher average performance. It has nothing to do with total hiring amount.
blsapologist42
·vorig jaar·discuss
It's not like the firing is random. "Low performers" get a lot of warnings throughout the year. Most people are average or above so they will be completely unaffected, it's not likely you would drop from 50th percentile to 5th.

On the other hand, do you really want to be stuck working with someone who's not very competent? I think we've all had that experience and it's miserable.
blsapologist42
·vorig jaar·discuss
As a former interviewer at Meta who did hundreds of technical interviews, I can tell you that the people that I hardly expected "Djikstra or Knuth". Honestly I gave pretty reasonable questions that were similar to the types of things I would do in my work (with some modifications to work as an interview question). And still the majority of people didn't do great. It's even worse at the "screen" stage, where I've had people that, e.g. didn't know what "function" means or couldn't write a loop to find the max number in an array.
blsapologist42
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
If it was intentional shouldn't it have some kind of fade animation?
blsapologist42
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Like Alphabet