[spamuel]

>But Reddit's messaging has angered some employees who were given high marks in evaluations and then let go.

Yeah, managers often damn with faint praise. If your evaluation is full of soft language about how great you are instead of specific metrics on what you've accomplished, you're not doing well.

A person I worked with was featured in an interview at one point about workplace discrimination. He showed the interviewer one of his old evals intended to evidence his value as an employee. It featured a lot of flowery language like "works well with others" and praising him for being on time.

Meanwhile the dude was a useless narcissist. If you looked closely at the eval sitting on the table in the interview, you could see that the "lacks competence" block was checked. There's no way the interviewer didn't notice it.

[mattpallissard]

Bull. Fucking. Shit.

That's the exception, not the rule. What's more likely?

  1. Reddit did a shitty job hiring, reviewing, working with, and taking remedial actions with a large set of employees.

OR

  2. Reddit is just another company pulling a chicken-shit move; trying to eek out profits while putting blame on then little guys.

There is absolutely no way in hell all these companies are weeding out poor performers this quickly or efficiently. It's actually paradoxical given the pretense of widespread incompetence.