Hacker News Reader

Same with their presentations at conferences. They hire really good people, pay them a ton (300k+), and fire them when they stop performing.

It's a good way to get great people, if you can afford it.

That gets into a murky definition of "performing" though. Performance is often limited by other people, many of which may be long gone. It can also create a culture of people unwilling to admit mistakes. It doesn't take long for these behaviours to produce massive amounts of technical debt.

The policy doesn't seem to be working for their UI team either.

No system is going to be perfect, but I think it's worth something that they're at least trying to do reasonable things.

The real question is how many times do people fall into that tricky edge case vs. how often is there a fairly clearly case for a termination?

Wow, same here. I relate to every point, which has never happened with any "culture and values" brief before.

Yeah I just read their HR document yesterday and I really like how the company culture is described on paper.