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Comment by socialismisok | Hacker News Reader

I very much disagree that a) Twitter is only cutting dead weight and b) Tweeps are happy about seeing their peers fired en masse.

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Imagine the look on this guys face when he's the one who gets the layoff slip while the one's he thought would get it, get to keep their job.

Don't be so sure, you're a high performer. High performance isn't just about your own performance. All it takes is for the project you're working on to end up on the dead end list and all the sudden, you'll be on the dead end list too. There's too many factors that influence a person's performance besides just the work they put in.

I’m sure there will be some people let go that don’t deserve it. But I imagine the majority of the sorting here is pretty accurate.

My guess is 6 months from now the company will be stronger than ever with an inspired staff that trusts their peers are pulling weight too.

You think half of Twitter's engineers aren't just bad, they are dead weight. And there was no performance evaluation system in place to get rid of them? Come on. That's an outrageous claim without any evidence.

If half of my coworkers got laid off, I would be exactly the opposite of inspired. I'd feel ashamed that I stayed after that.

If half of my coworkers got laid off, I'd be running away from the company faster than light. Staying after they pull a stunt like that only means waiting until they pull another one (or the company just collapses from the shock of losing that much capacity).

>...be stronger than ever with an inspired staff

Ah yes, the "inspiration" from solving the world's biggest problems of letting people send deep thoughts two sentences at a time.

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