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Serious question - with so much bad press about the way their company is doing things (mostly unethical), why haven't their work force collapsed? I would imagin

• dragonwriter 10y ago
  Because workers have bills to pay?
  • taternuts 10y ago
    Sure, but the real talent at the company surely wouldn't have much trouble finding work somewhere else, especially given the amount of stories out there saying that they've been kept in the dark the whole time. The question is why would these people stay on this sinking ship
    • gedrap 10y ago
      It's hard to say without at least having knowledge of the industry as it's naive to expect that it's the same job market as with the programmers. While it all looks ridiculous from the outside (and media makes it easy to see Theranos as a bunch of idiots), maybe some smart people inside think that they still can pull it off? That maybe the odds of success are large enough, even still low in absolute terms, to take the risk to hit the jackpot? Or maybe simply it's not that easy to find a new job in such a niche area.