Or you could interpret it as: The development team at the company was a hot mess. The company brought in a CTO who stumbled a bit out of the gate, and a few de

Or you could interpret it as: The development team at the company was a hot mess. The company brought in a CTO who stumbled a bit out of the gate, and a few developers made it very clear that they were uninterested in working with him or following his lead. Because the company felt it needed to go in a new direction with the development team, they had to let most of those developers -- who were clearly a bad fit at this point -- go. Because there's almost no detail in that story.