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So now it seems that all big-tech was keeping tens of thousands of poor performers for years. I believe those performers were not really poor, it is probably matter of bad management so people were not able to present their true skill, but in any case - why they kept so many people as it seems they never needed them?

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A few months ago I interviewed a candidate who was being recruited internally.

Few days passed and the delivery manager reached me to arrange a meeting with some other people who interviewed the same person.

Apparently their assessment was very different and they didn't want him in their project, so they were curious why mine was generally positive. We went back and forth on this and eventually I asked how long he's been in this organisation.

Two years.

He's now in a mostly solo project and I occasionally review his work. It's fine. I've seen much worse around here.

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