Yep, I was put on PIP with impossible success criteria (no issues raised in PRs by senior engineers and no issues in code deployed to production - even if it was reviewed by senior engineers & QA) and fired (for failing that criteria) in 2 weeks.

I worked there for ~8 months in total.

> no issues raised in PRs by senior engineers

Wat? Like serious issues, or minor things that can be improved? Because it's very rare in my place of work that there are no comments on a 'PR'. Something can always be improved.

+1 on this, every place or project I have touched has a backlog of tens if not hundreds of nice to haves but never enough time to touch them, and some of them are really not complicated.

The impossible PIP trick for dismissal is something I’d love to see get eventually legally obliterated.

Constructive dismissal is illegal in many countries. It's the choice of the people which system they want to work in.

It’s illegal where I am, but employers are extremely capable of abusing “performance improvement plans” as a way to constructively dismiss people - knowing most people won’t have the wherewithal to fight it in court.

Sometimes the only winning move is no to play