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One concern with that would be that good engineers would usually see this on the horizon and leave for better / more prospective jobs in advance. So those who s
by richardknop 9y ago
One concern with that would be that good engineers would usually see this on the horizon and leave for better / more prospective jobs in advance. So those who stayed until mass layoffs might not be the top talent that used to work at the company before when it was doing better.
I am not sure it applies in this case as this was quite sudden and we don't have enough visibility to see how many red flags were there few months / a year ago. In this case it seems to have been so sudden that lots of great people have been caught off guard.
- kevan 9y agoBoth hypotheses sound reasonable to me, I'd like to see some data on this type of thing.
- bogomipz 9y agoThere are actual a host of real life circumstances such as family, babies, health etc. that might prevent or make it difficult for someone to conduct a preemptive job search or job change.
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- richardknop 9y agoYes I think this is actually a big factor I had not thought about. People with families, children, mortgages etc might be more prone to staying and hoping for the ship to be righted rather than preemptively moving.