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fordtoday at 3:31 AM1 replyview on HN

Has it been many people's experience that big companies intentionally remove experienced engineers from your team to something unrelated, in the name of fungibility? I've surely seen efforts within a team to make sure that there's not a single person who's necessary for the team to reach full productivity, and I think most would agree this model does not make for resilient teams. But many of the best engineers I know have had much more energy invested in getting them to stay than to leave


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Herringtoday at 4:10 AM

We just went through a ton of layoffs, while those companies are making record profits.