My experience with 15 years as a hiring manager, it all depends. I truly hate to say it, but a lot of it comes down to just trying to whittle down the candidate pool. Your top candidates are going to be someone doing the same job at a competitor they almost always go to the front of the line. After that you start making calls, do you want 1 rockstar you're willing to pay for?? Then cut the unemployed. Do you want two people on the cheap, well then focus on the unemployed ( who will get majorly low balled ). I just hired two people, HR got thousands of applications for each position HR cut it down to dozens, they made it through the AI screener and other review, which I do admit sucks but more in that it tosses out too many quality candidates and not in that it lets too much junk through. So how do we get dozens down to 5 for a solid interview? We toss everyone who doesn't meet arbitrary rules. Why do they have to be arbitrary? Because our odds of getting sued are lower if we toss people for consistent but BS reasons.

I don't think they were ever an upstart, wasn't Lexmark just the spinoff of IBMs printing business?

My 2 cents, I doubt Amazon cares about unemployment at all, that's very small potatoes. They're setting this up to avoid severance and healthcare, 1 months extra healthcare coverage is probably close to what you get in unemployment total, at least in my state.

When it comes to having to relocate a decent distance, quitting or firing doesn't make a lot of difference. In most states it falls under fairly standard "Good Cause" exemptions which are valid for quitting or being fired.

Are we Dallasites or Texans or Americans or Humans? Why do New Yorkers have to have so much of their federal taxes go to pay for programs in Alabama. We can debate the can but for much of this it's the will. Can people in country X pay or provide food for their starving poor, maybe, will they no. So, we need to ask ourselves do we as Americans point the finger and say shame on them not my problem OR do we as humans go we need to help our fellow man. I see both sides and if you want to argue we should ignore country X until we have A, b, and c solved here or we really can't afford it for whatever reason I understand.

I don't think companies are anywhere near as efficient as you think. I've seen several big layoffs at my company and others I work with over the years, sometimes large teams, 200+ people, getting cut by over 60% and after a month or so of readjustment, things were pretty much business as usual and a few times actually for effective. Look at twitter Musk cut 80% and rehired back 10-20% and it seems to be operating just fine. I've found there's a tremendous amount of organizational bloat just to justify titles.

This. I took my daughter and two friends to a movie for birthday this past Sunday. The total bill was almost $150. I can afford it, but I have a plenty good enough at home theater to want to bother. So what I see movies like 5-6 weeks later for the price of a streaming service I already pay. But how does someone who makes average money justify that. I worked in a kitchen in high school. We went to the movies every other week. There's no way people can afford this now.

I won't say manufacturing in China isn't cheaper, it is. I also won't say that profit isn't a consideration, it totally is. However the difference in cost between many goods manufactured abroad vs domestically, by the time it gets to your retailer of choice, is often only single digit precents cheaper. While that does add to the bottom line and at scale is an amazingly huge number, it is often not the only or even main consideration. The continuity of supply and ability to reconfigure manufacturing lines plays a large part. My company leverages both domestic and foreign manufacturing and when we need to reconfigure a design for a change in a subcomponent, which happen by far more frequently then I ever would have thought, we can often get complete product from China onto shelves before the domestic lines have even finished changes. That's the real cost/profit impact. If I'm short shipments to the retailers, I often have to pay penalties to the retailers for those short shipments. On top of that I make zero dollars on every device I didn't sell. Then the extra kicker is if that demand is fulfilled by another product while I am delayed and I complete my shipments there might be excess of my product at the store which they have the right to return, often at my cost. Internally we would love to move more production domestically, it does make many things a lot easier, and it's a fantastic marketing story. The numbers however just never seem to work out to make that move and unfortunately we're ultimately compared to the cost of competitors that wouldn't change.

One of best childhood friends was very overweight, his entire life, everyone in his family was overweight. He was a do the least IT admin whose hobbies were video games, movies, and MTG. He got really sick, and after two years of struggles he got into a fecal transplant study. It cured his problems. Then we started noticing changes. He asked to go on a backpacking trip on the AT with me. He started dropping weight, while claiming he hasn't really changed his diet much from pre-illness. He went from a do the least to a go getter. He near 100% flipped his political positions. He's at his 3rd startup now as a VP. Everyone says the health scare changed his outlook, but he says he never felt that way. He never said if I get through this I'm changing my life. He says I just started seeing things differently. So if you would have asked me 8 years ago if gut biome mattered I would have said it probably nudges but not much. Now, even though it's an experience sample size of 1, I have to say it probably matters quite a bit. I have read a bit about it over the past couple years and while the experience is not typical it's not uncommon either.

Legit question as I've been a minimal to no Twitter user for over a decade. Are you saying operationally Twitter is doing poorly or content wise? From my limited view content wise it seems as trashy and myopic as ever, from every direction. Operationally it seems fine?

The current crop of NLSAS and these newer drives really only fit into one of two spaces today. Video where large block sequential mitigates a lot of the seek time issues, You still have the many of the issues you stated but they're less bad. From a RAID standpoint you're often running 2-3 parity drives or a dynamic raid that is essentially spreading the data, party, and spare capacity across a massive pool of drives. In both cases rebuild can be smart enough to focus on critical sections in a multi fail scenario so your time exposed to a double fail is minimized.

The other use case is pretty much long term backup and archive where it might very well be one of the last stops.
Most of the large datasets that need a degree of performance and are more small block random have prettt much moved to QLC or PLC flash, where we will have 120Tb drives this year
WD regularly briefs me on these drives, they supposedly have mechanism to make nuance performance and alleviate some of those bottlenecks, but I'm also approaching with a degree of caution as this has been a next year thing for what feels like a decade.

I started my career as a fed worker, granted that was 30 years ago, but these are my thoughts and experiences.
First, is there bloat and waste, sure it's everywhere, but it's not nearly as rampant as people think.
Second, so much "waste" was because we couldn't have just a little more money. Our tools were crap. I was making custom cables and wires we burned so much time because we ran out of part A or razor blades or whatever. We were constantly scavenging everything. We were building 1 working drill from two broken ones.
Third, there's so much paperwork, and most of that paperwork is to prevent fraud, and make sure everyone is working. We were a badge in badge out building, and every day you needed 9 hours, 8 for working and 1 hour of breaks. If you worked late, you still needed to be in 9 hours every day the rest of the week. We documented every pen and every screw we used, because we needed proof someone wasn't stealing stuff.
I truly hope they go in and try to find ways to make things better, but I just don't think they're going to find much without wholesale walking away from function, if that function is bloat that's a debate for another day. The people don't make much and the benefits are pretty horrible.

Their policy was as much time off as you wanted before a child turned 1, almost everyone was taking the entire year off. That's what they're dialing back. I'm very pro parental leave, for a reasonable amount of time, but that might be a bit much. My oldest is only 13 and when she was born I was entitled to, 2 days, also known as the 2 days my wife was in the hospital.

I use the internet , mainly for work, ill watch probably 45 minutes per day on average of some streaming service, I do 30 minutes or so of general browsing a day, usually a little News, checking the stocks, a couple longer sessions when doing research for a project. But, what the heck is everyone doing online all the time. I had surgery last year which really minimized my mobility for a week. After the first day I was done with the internet for the week, less NetFlix. Besides just watching videos and playing video games what else are people doing online? I'm about 5 minutes from getting into work mode, I won't even think of the web, outside of a work scope, for another 12-13 hours. Please don't read this as a troll or judgement or a dig. I use Facebook I use Reddit, I just don't see how you can do that all day. Is there a big part of online i'm missing? Or did I just never get sucked into it.

I don't know how many dozens of people I've worked with on PIPs over the years, the number that made it through, 0. Half were using the time to find another job, half were trying to keep the job they had. Even when they turn it up, and actually work like a top employee, I've always seen them cut, even when every KPI is met. You and your company may be different, but I've not seen it work that way.

The vast majority of my career I didn't know free coffee was an actual work perk. My current company doesn't even have a coffee pot we can throw in on. We do have a machine it's $4/16oz cup.