If u were a pretty good performers and find your self denied credit for your contribution and given low rating and negative feedback and laid off.
recruiters and operation are colluding to keep the folks who paid their way into the company safe.
Credit for ur precious work is given to this backdoor folks and the argument goes like this the guy being laid off is any way skilled and and can survive job market demands and it will be easy for open market recruiters to make money out of him by using his profile for another opportunity and place him at lower salary.
U may find it strange bu it is true as recruiter who called my and expected to be paid one lakh for me to placed at 70% of my ctc and lciamed that he has very good feedback from my previous employer.