> We don't need as many senior people and there is some aspect that is performance related. I wasn't directly impacted by this, but from the few instances I've

> We don't need as many senior people and there is some aspect that is performance related. I wasn't directly impacted by this, but from the few instances I've seen, the people being ousted seem to be those that had questioned tech. decisions. They were people who did badly during our review process. For instance we have a brand new react server side rendering based platform. I think the performance of that framework is somewhere around 2 concurrent requests per virtual machine. And we're bragging about our performance chops publicly: https://medium.com/walmartlabs/using-electrode-to-improve-react-server-side-render-performance-by-up-to-70-e43f9494eb8b#.2raryap9b https://medium.com/walmartlabs/using-electrode-to-improve-re... Wal-Mart has many problems, I don't think too many experienced engineers is one of them.