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前两集老油子翻译劈柴说了什么的帖子被踩了好多次,估计都是狗家人踩的我。踩我是没有用的,我又不是劈柴,裁你的人不是我。在这场灾难中,最重要的是learn your lesson。在职场光懂得埋头搞技术是不够的,还要学会看懂管理层面的天气,预测来的是风雨还是洪水,才能为自己早做打算,减少损失。
裁员老油子系列:(适合学习管理界通用的黑话). Χ 翻译劈柴说了啥1 翻译劈柴说了啥2 炒高管会怎么影响你
有人说老油子是神预测,我其实什么都没有预测,我就是翻译黑话。懂管理的人都看得出来,劈柴第一集出来后股沟裁员就已经绝对不可能避免,只是从哪里开始裁的问题。老油子看错的是股沟的管理层的业务水平。他们比我想象得更差,没有从Q4阶梯式裁,而是等到1月份一口气砍,导致市场上瞬间挤满了找工作的人。
这次我分析的原文是 https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/23/ ... wn-hall-monday.html
这篇CNBC报道看了下来觉得没有特别大的必要逐段翻译管理层的黑话,我就只讲我看不顺眼的部分。
劈柴先是为疯狂招人辩护说2021年营业额大幅增长,害怕跟不上增长所以才有疯狂招人的一波。之后劈柴就把员工的愤怒分发给他手里的各个高管来扛了,是个胆小鬼。看他们怎么分配谁来答哪个问题,真是防御准备充分。
Executives said 750 senior leaders were involved in the process, adding it took a few weeks to determine who would be laid off.
“We have over 30,000 managers at Google and to consult with all of them would have made this an open process where it would have taken additional weeks or even months to come to a decision,” said Fiona Cicconi, Google’s chief people officer, at the meeting. “We wanted to get certainty sooner.”
这么大一个公司只用了750个人和几周来决定裁员,让我看着非常不顺眼,因为这决定了肯定不可能按照performance裁人。我的粗略估计是战略咨询公司按照各个产品线的营业额、利润率、和未来增长期望,已经在2022年Q3给了各个高管每个产品线该裁多少人%的结论,咨询公司应该是指望着他们按照正常的裁员流程,Q4下放到各个团队去裁。但是显然股沟内部的高管们一直没有把计划裁员的任务下放给中高层,因为在高层里面可能有让大家过好圣诞节的想法?同时,由于之前劈柴已经放口风出来至少两次,肯定是期望有更多的人自己走,这样可以少付一些severance package。结果自然是没有料到的,6个月了,就是没有人走。于是,到了必须裁员的Q1,就只能用算法裁员了。这个人的计算方法贴我认为是非常可信的 https://www.1point3acres.com/bbs/thread-960615-1-1.html
我看不顺眼的地方是股沟管理层高层把整个Q4都浪费了没有搞阶梯式裁员。这样用算法裁员肯定冲击了很多努力的员工,是非常不负责任的行为,最后还让人力资源老总来背锅说“我们想要早点确定”。这么烂的决策肯定不是人力资源做的,劈柴甩不掉这个锅。-baidu 1point3acres
Cicconi said the company considered “skill set, time in role where experience or relationships are relevant and matter, productivity indicators like sales quotas and performance history.”
我不知道股沟用不用Workday,以我自己的经验来看,算法确实可以直接根据Workday里面的员工数据算出来裁谁。如果用Workday的话,员工自己在里面的performance用词和profile填的各种技能关键字都能影响这个算法的,被算法裁员真的好囧。Workday里面关于每个员工至少有8000来个数据点,只要用上几十个就已经可以搞精准算法裁员了,我估计股沟最多用了10个吧,所以很多误伤。
Pichai indicated there would be executive compensation cuts but provided limited details. He said all senior vice presidents “will see a very significant reduction in their annual bonus” this year. “The more senior you are, the more your compensation is tied to performance,” he said. “You can reduce your equity grants if performance is not great.”
这段等于没说。为什么呢,我举例你就明白了。不是按股沟的工资来的,就是纯举例。. From 1point 3acres bbs
经理1管一个团队的工程师,工资100,performance bonus 15%
经理2管几个经理1,工资150,performance bonus 20%
经理3管几个经理2,负责一个产品,工资250,performance bonus 30%, product line sales bonus 70% (其中一部分bonus是股票)
高管1管几个经理3,负责一个品牌,工资350,performance bonus 50%, product line sales bonus 100% (其中一部分bonus是股票)
Performance bonus要看岗位来定义的,除非上级要求一律调低performance rating, 只要老板想保下属是不会影响的。Sales target是每年根据市场预测定的,这样凡是销售不到预期的年份,sales bonus就会随着下降或者没有,这本来就是爬到高层要承受的风险。2022应该是没有达到预期,所以经理3跟高管1都要损失收入,但是2023可以调低预期。那劈柴为什么要提这呢,为了让员工好受点呗。
下面这个应该是裁员重灾区之一吧?显然在销售不好的地方砍了很多人,所以高管要出来承担怨气。就看上头愿不愿意保他了,我觉得炒他在理论上是可以的。没有太多可以翻译的。.google и
Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, offered some perspective on the areas that saw cuts. Google’s cloud unit has been one of the fastest-growing areas for head count expansion as the company tries to atch Amazon and Microsoft.
“Our engineering hiring is being much more targeted in areas where we need to fill out a product portfolio,” Kurian said. “We are adding sales and customer engineers in very specific countries and industries.” Kurian said that starting in July, the cloud unit’s aim was to focus hiring “in response to generative AI across our portfolio.”
下头这个问题,不知道为啥让这个高管出来背锅,是不是他手里也裁了好多人?裁员的时候正常操作是通知被直接影响的团队都有谁挂了,就算不给时间交接,也能知道以后这个活没有人干了,而股沟这个匆忙操作的裁员显然没有时间来处理,所以就找个了借口不通知。垃圾。
Rick Osterloh, senior vice president of devices and services, said the company “deliberately didn’t share out of respect for people’s privacy.”
“We know this can be frustrating for people who are still here,” Osterloh said. “But losing your job without any choice in it is very difficult and it’s very personal and many people don’t want their names to be on a list that’s distributed to everyone.”
下头这个是我看笑了的,跟上头一样,因为匆忙操作锁了员工账号,管理层竟然把这个锅给了管安全的高管来答。无耻。
Another commenter on Dory wrote, “We severed access for 12k employees without the chance to perform knowledge transfers or even let them say goodbye to their colleagues. This is what we do to people who get fired.”
Then came the question: “What’s the message for those of us who are left?”.
Royal Hansen, vice president of security at Google, chimed in to describe “an unusual set of risks that frankly we’re not that well practiced at managing.” He said there were “trade-offs.”
以下这个的不要脸程度是让我直接晕倒在地的。
In response to a question asking how employees who had been with the company for 15-plus years were targeted for cuts, Brian Glaser, vice president and chief talent and learning officer said, “we all know that no one is immune to change in our careers.”
这个问题让Talent and learning officer出来答,简直就是在讽刺那些在股沟15年后被裁的员工没有learning capacity。太恶心了。
这完全是一场管理能力的灾难,唯一的安慰是分手包给得还不错。
这场裁员应该还没有结束,还会有下一轮。
我一直都觉得华尔街把硅谷的泡沫吹太大了,这些估值高的一线公司,都是把地球人口乘以life time value来计算的。上一次因特网技术革命的浪潮已经过去了,接下来再次出现可供吹泡泡的同样规模的技术革命可能需要很长时间。有一点是肯定的:一部分一线公司必须要面对自己将要主要服务于传统行业公司的现实。传统行业公司能付的钱是有限的,肯定不会多过传统行业的利润,这样如果华尔街不瞎吹泡泡的话,IT公司的估值就要下降。实际上欧洲有很多本土的IT公司做B2B的,估值都是按照传统行业公司顾客的数量和销售额计算的,他们的程序员工资也就比欧洲普通的制造业工程师高个10-20%的样子,外加早期加入的员工能分配股权。