TRUE, BUTScope Swap
Re-interviews off; Yen will still push
One employee told 404 Media the things the re-interviews would have measured would become part of performance reviews.
“Proton's CEO cancels AI 're-interviews'.”
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Yen did cancel them, and in the same meeting said he is still going to push.
The twist
An employee told 404 Media the things the re-interviews would have measured become a component of performance reviews.
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Receipts
- Supports 404media.co:
“We’ve decided to actually cancel the re-interviews,” Yen said.
- Refutes 404media.co:
“So what does that mean going forward? Going forward, I'm still going to push,” he added.
- Refutes 404media.co:
the things that were to be measured in the re-interviews would become a component of the performance reviews
- Context 404media.co:
according to six current Proton employees and audio of an around two hour all-hands meeting obtained by 404 Media
- Context 404media.co:
Users downvoted his response more than 1,200 times.
- Context 404media.co:
“but there will be no loss of jobs from AI.”
- Refutes aiweekly.co:
The policy survived the apology. "Going forward, I'm still going to push," Yen said.
- Context developmentstoday.com:
Yen acknowledged a communication failure while saying he would continue to push AI adoption.
- Context 404media.co:
He said that the reorganization will happen next month
- Supports 404media.co:
mostly happy with how this was addressed including by Andy [Yen]
- Context 404media.co:
The move came after 404 Media published an investigation on Thursday
- Context 404media.co:
cancelled a series of nearly company-wide ‘re-interviews’
- Context 404media.co:
in some cases despite security concerns from employees
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