<div dir="ltr">In my experience it is often better to work for companies that have periodic layoffs. It has become unfashionable to fire bad or mediocre employees, as such companies have to trim the poor performers through layoffs. As a result it is not unusual for the company to be trying to hire for the same position as they just laid someone off from. <br><br>I have worked at companies that kept the dead weight and it really drags down the morale of the other employees and the productivity. In such companies the good, productive employees are the first to leave because they are marketable. This leaves the company with the lower performers and then the company gets in a bad situation where they can not remove the low performers as they have the tribal knowledge about products. In such companies the morale continues to decline as does productivity until the business is sold or closes. <div><div><br></div><div>It is better to be part of the solution than part of the problem.</div><div><br></div><div>Trampas</div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 9:21 AM Bill Farrow via TriEmbed <<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org">triembed@triembed.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">A SiFive recruiter was emailing me just a week ago for a <span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">System Software Architect opening :-)</span><div><br></div><div>Seems to be a repeating pattern in the tech industry. Hire like crazy, then cut cut cut.</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 7:39 PM Peter Soper via TriEmbed <<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org" target="_blank">triembed@triembed.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="font-family:monospace"> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">I should not have pointed to that blog yesterday. 90% BS. Sorry about that! And here Tom's headline is "hundreds" but the actual number is about 140 out of 700. Sigh.</span>
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<br> <span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">SiFive Lays Off Hundreds of RISC-V Developers (Update) - <a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sifive-lays-off-hundreds-of-risc-v-developers" target="_blank">https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sifive-lays-off-hundreds-of-risc-v-developers</a></span>
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