Cloudflare fires multiple people and gaslights as to why

https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/woman-records-getting-fired-from-cloudflare-ceo-reacts-101705589649547.html

by pierat • 3 years ago

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billy99k3• 3 years ago

She admits she made $0 in sales in her 3 months there and she is in corporate sales. It's no surprise that she was fired. HR said it was based on stats. These were the stats. There was probably a 90-day probationary period.

If I was a developer and didn't commit one line of code in 90 days, I would also expect to be fired.

They won't go into details because they probably aren't allowed to (based on legal).

I don't see the gaslighting, just someone trying to get revenge on a company for firing her.

Arnt• 3 years ago

How weird that "all the reviews she has received from her manager were positive" though. Maybe those were in the beginning of the period?

billy99k3• 3 years ago

That is weird. I'm not sure why she wouldn't get some kind of feedback from her manager.

Gibbon1• 3 years ago

She admits she made $0 in sales in her 3 months there and she is in corporate sales.

B2b sales aren't like you trying to sell cars for a used car dealer. It can take months to years to land a customer. A sales guy might land a customer every six months that pays their salary several times over. And if you hire a sales guy when your business is stalled or declining that isn't his fault.

If I was a developer and didn't commit one line of code in 90 days, I would also expect to be fired.

Some friends tried to get me to apply for a job working on a Java virtual machine. My friend said it took him six months to commit his first changes. Once you get outside of standard enterprise Java and webshit the above is more common.

billy99k3• 3 years ago

"B2b sales aren't like you trying to sell cars for a used car dealer. It can take months to years to land a customer. A sales guy might land a customer every six months that pays their salary several times over."

After watching the video again, it sounds like she needed to land a sale within 5 months (she started in August). We also don't know what other stats the company has on her. Was she sitting at her desk and watching Netflix all day? Not making phone calls? Not contacting enough customers?

"My friend said it took him six months to commit his first changes. Once you get outside of standard enterprise Java and webshit the above is more common."

There are probably some other internal goals/something that shows you are making progress besides lines of code in your example. I was just using this as an example.

Cloudflare fires multiple people and gaslights as to why

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