Are LRs truly random? Last time my org was impacted they made a big deal saying nothing was performance based, but why would that be?
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I got cut twice in my Cisco career. First one, the entire dept got wacked, from VP down to admin. But I quickly found multiple other jobs with in Cisco in one week (yeah, the good ole days). Second one.....it was age (I was in my 50s), s-x (I was a white male in a group of women), and politics. Yeah, that one su-ked....I was really mad, especially since I trained/mentored everyone in the group.
It's performance, age, politics (whose as--s you are kissing up to). I don't know how it is now, but 10 years ago the performance wasn't so much "now", versus what they (mgmt) thought you would contribute in the future. The mgmt team would make a 9 block review of you as a person, and then talk about it. Oh yeah, and don't forget the yearly company survey. If you replied with negative feedback on that, you are in danger (even though it's supposed to be anonymous....but it's not. They lied).
I did LRs in 3 of my teams in the spring. It's budget driven. Performance, attitude, newest on team, geographical cost of living are reasons.
You might not have been LR for performance.
in a Q1 leader call it was said to do more documenting on low performers and get them on performance plans sooner.
Over 35.
Nontechnical.
Non-quota generating.
Any history with HR, affairs, colluding with past employees with shady histories. Anything damning really.
Now a days, it is pure age related with politics. With AI assisted coding, there is no more Performance basis to evaluate on any technical stuff...
Here's a shocker: it depends.
why does everything have to be so black and white for you first order thinkers
It is not random. You get singled out for any reason like age, performance and/or politics. This is why there are so many bootlickers.
It's based on age, salary, and politicking ability. Next question, that was an easy one.
Come on, it is common knowledge that older people are more at risk. Because that is exactly who they are targeting for a significant portion of their layoffs.
The lawyers wave their magic wand to make it legal "enough".
I know they say that but it’s all performance based.
If you are a risk to the company in any way, to their reputation, financially = toast
Every layoff in my group (up under Finance) has been easily traceable to either performance issues or to employees that were considered difficult and undesirable to work with.
So will there be a layoff ? Stock price is falling just before the earnings 🥺
@bb there was silent LR in August you just didn't hear about it
@b5 the beat + beyond the numbers happens every quarter regardless. In August there was a combined one right after earnings and no announcement
@b4 the beat just got scheduled today for one week after the earnings call so I think it's very likely to happen
So 11/2026 LR is now confirmed?
Sometimes it is sometimes it isn't. On occasion a manager is told they have to reduce their team by a number of heads and the manager chooses, other times entire orgs are eliminated.
it not being performance based doesn't mean it's random either