[zalyh]

Blind post is no longer there.

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

[dmlerner]

The post is still there