Chris

I’ve seen multiple accounts on twitter itself over the past several days referencing the ‘lines of code’ criterion for sacking people. It depends who was running the dismissals I guess. I’ve seen some pretty crass redundancy processes in my time and (with apologies to anyone here working in HR) I’ve seen some pretty ludicrous HR procedures ostensibly intended to facilitate managing a large workforce but actually doing little more than to reduce the HR department’s workload and to allow them to claim certain tasks have been done when in reality nothing could be further from the truth. I’ve seen people made redundant who should never have been made redundant, I’ve seen people get internal promotions where their single skill is gaming the HR department’s ‘competency based interview’ process. I’ve seen people subjected to patronising ‘support’ interviews for being sick for a week, despite it being their only illness in years, simply because a number on a database triggered a procedure.

Yes, if Twitter’s HR department is anywhere near the process, I’d say these reports are entirely credible.