- No "regularly well performing" employees are kept. You're either promoted or fired. Ensure workforce moves.
- Doing the shitty necessary work such as fixing tech-debt just gets you fired. But I bet people do it anyway, else Netflix would be in troubles. It's just that they get fired after that. Not really nice.
It also means you've to be only doing stuff that has direct visible impact, and refuse any work that does not/place yourself visually above others.
Not saying this is a bad strategy to get stuff to work, not sure if very ethical though.
Exactly--in a work environment when everyone is fearing for their livelihood, succeeding at performance theatre becomes the primary concern. You need to be a top performer, in both senses of the word--but it's human nature that over time the acting sense will take priority.
- No "regularly well performing" employees are kept. You're either promoted or fired. Ensure workforce moves.
- Doing the shitty necessary work such as fixing tech-debt just gets you fired. But I bet people do it anyway, else Netflix would be in troubles. It's just that they get fired after that. Not really nice.
It also means you've to be only doing stuff that has direct visible impact, and refuse any work that does not/place yourself visually above others.
Not saying this is a bad strategy to get stuff to work, not sure if very ethical though.
That's all I noticed was actually interesting ;-)