Proton to 'Re-Interview' Staff About AI to See Who Gets to Keep Their Job

JoeBOFH

And now my opinion has soured on Proton and I am a paying client.

lazzurs

This seems like a shitty way to approach this. Would love to hear from Proton on this.

MrDresden

Yeah ok. Time for me to go find a new home for my email.

siva7

I know you people here don't like to hear this. Proton makes this process very open. Other companies are doing silent layoffs by calling employees back to office, granting generous buyout packages for leaving the company or offering retraining and removing them from their previous roles (while granting those few they want to keep every wish).

righthand

The C-suites are all nuts for LLMs. The craziest ones are trying to force their employees to adopt and be constantly sharing novel uses of Llms. What I have mostly seen as the usage by most coworkers usually involves using AI to take their notes and create a presentation or automate some tedious work. Essentially glue and pipe software program output together. One use case in particular had a coworker building find/replace macros by feeding slideshow slides to the agent describing how the macro should work. C-suite eats this shit up because they’re using “AI at work!”.

BiraIgnacio

sooo... performance reviews?

ro_sharp

> These re-interviews are consequential An open process with a clear rationale is better than a secret process, e.g. company wide surveys that are later used to determine whether you keep your job… Whether this actually leads to improved productivity and better products is TBD, of course.

iAMkenough

It’ll sort itself out. Whether they intend to or not, they’re “re-aligning” their customer base too with this decision. The talented people that built their products will continue to build products for customers that no longer align with Proton’s c-suite philosophy/politics. It’s a free market!

CoastalCoder

I had been considering Proton as a way to de-Google myself. I'm glad to learn about this before pulling the trigger.