LifeHacks to avoid Layoffs!
People what are your suggestions to avoid layoffs.
#1 Write UnDocumented and Unmaintainable codes!
I think it's a combination of two parts- good visibility with your higher up and managing your performance reviews.
- Always keep the manager/super manager happy. Anyone else can have complaints
Do their work on priority and make sure you get tons of visibility on it.
Get tons of visibility with them with frequent update emails of your metrics/ achievements.
- Strategise your performance reviews- every performance review is an opportunity to set up expectations for the next one.
Your manager will come in with an impression of you in a review. He'll have some feedback nor the other.
If you're smart, you've anticipated them, know why they're associated with you. It's a game of impression management.
Fight back on a couple negatives/ feedbacks but keep some as room to show improvement in the next review.
Work on them, write out updates showing you're addressing them, keep showing him progress, that you're growing.
Do the above two and you'll get more projects, have a good equation internally and get promotions.
If my company allowed undocumented and unmaintainable code into the codebase, I would screw it up read hard and then resign, just for the fun of it
