> "I-it could be that she didn't actually listen to the feedback, guys. What if she had bad feedback?!" (Implying, without evidence, that the employee is at fault. The most tone-deaf part of his response.)
> "Maybe she'd be a star on another team!" (Pointless sports analogy. Another tone-deaf moment.)
> "W-we'll do better next time."
An embarrassing display.
If I were a potential hire / investor / client -- yeah I may pay more attention and make some mental notes about how much I respect them as a company. But I dont think this was embarassingly bad to become a dealbreaker for any stakeholder. For me it mostly adds one more bit to a gestalt of how corporate functions and tech companies work these days.
Heck, how about telling that he personally reviewed her case and that her direct manager called her with details.
What if he did all that and more but we the public doesn't need to know?
Or they have some idea what needs to be fixed but it can neither be done within one week nor summarized in one paragraph.
This is just 15 minutes of diversion in our lives -- we don't care either way.
He chose to communicate amd.he chose what to write and what not to write.
But instead of analyzing the facts, you decide to base your analysis on what-if fantasies that you invented.
Sad.
…only to repeat the cycle in under a year and lay off another group in the exact same way.