When the company had financial trouble though, they fired all the middle managers and kept the engineers The truth is that most layoffs don't work like that, u

When the company had financial trouble though, they fired all the middle managers and kept the engineers The truth is that most layoffs don't work like that, unfortunately. Members of the management class will generally try to protect their own, and they see engineers as mere blue-collar workers, no matter how skilled or qualified those engineers are. Yes, even software engineers.