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Anyways, I didn't understand the acronyms so I decided to feed it to GPT and it definitely made it easier to understand:
Google is using a formula to determine which employees will be laid off (known as RIF: Reduction in Force)
The formula takes into account various factors such as location of labor (with US Premium Plus areas being more heavily impacted), tenure and performance in the current level, "runway" of compensation (the difference between base salary and maximum potential salary), and promo velocity (how quickly the employee has been promoted within the company)
This formula calculates a "number" for each employee based on these factors
Each Product Area Vice President (PA VP) is given a percentage of employees they must lay off
Employees with a score below a certain threshold, determined by the formula, will be laid off
Google and Facebook might be better at some things, and maybe Apple too. But none of them has brought to market a chatbot that works pretty well(and not just as a party trick) and is very accessible to anyone on the Internet. I would love it if open up Siri such that I can communicate with it on a site just like ChatGPT.
It got me thinking that for every developer who manages to get frontpage on HN about their employer's dishonesty, there are probably more out there who had been screwed the same way.
That helps alleviate the pressure which would otherwise have made it impossible for me to put on my running shoes.