5% Canada employees affected today
Low performers at sr and staff titles mostly
No high levels affected
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Yes, some Reddit users are also discussing this
https://www.reddit.com/r/leetcode/comments/1fdqzw5/qualcomm_layoffs/
Good riddance
@tpy+1usTUd25, thank you for your sage advice.
Here's the thing about "low performers". As you get older, you automatically become "sr" or "staff" plus get yearly raises. Time makes you more expensive. It becomes a lot easier to justify cutting that expensive person, by saying "sr or staff should be walking on water".
Time will push a great engineer closer and closer toward the exit door. I did 4 decades in engineering, and I saw a significant number of my coworkers end up taking unplanned retirement. Fortunately when I was shown the door, I was already at a good retirement age. Many others are not so lucky.
Young folks considering a career in engineering might want to keep this in mind. The career might not be as long as you would have wanted.