Just got word from inside a major cloud provider
20% of their entire engineering org got PIP notifications this morning
That's 2,847 engineers who walked into work today thinking they were safe
Manager in Seattle told me the distribution happened at exactly 9:15 AM PST. Every affected engineer got the same templated Slack message: "Please join me for a brief 1:1 at 10 AM regarding your performance development plan"
The brutal part: HR already scheduled the termination meetings. February 18th. Exactly 30 days out. Back-to-back 15-minute slots from 9 AM to 6 PM across four conference rooms.
Managers got the final termination list yesterday. The PIPs are pure theater.
One L5 with 6 years tenure found out his entire team of 11 is on the list. His manager couldn't look him in the eye during the meeting.
Another engineer in their infrastructure org counted the calendar invites. 347 "performance review follow-ups" scheduled for the same day next month.
The sick twist: they're calling it a "performance calibration initiative" in the all-hands
But the leaked headcount projections show they're targeting 67% workforce reduction by end of Q1
Engineering VPs are telling their reports this is about "raising the bar" and "ensuring AI readiness"
Reality: they've been testing Claude-3.5 + offshore contractors for 8 weeks. Same output. 23% of the cost.
One senior architect with 12 years there just realized he spent the last 6 months documenting his entire knowledge base into their new "AI assistant training program"
He literally fed his institutional knowledge into the system that's replacing him
The 30-day countdown just started
If you're still there... your knowledge extraction is probably already complete
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