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There was a time when one of their blogs (one of the founders, I think) touted the fact that they had never lost an engineer to attrition. It seemed like a stra

There was a time when one of their blogs (one of the founders, I think) touted the fact that they had never lost an engineer to attrition. It seemed like a strange fact to use to promote the work environment because, even if true and impressive over any length of time, it would certainly have to be retracted sooner or later. I know at least one of the original Kiln engineers has moved on and Trello has been sold. Anyway, I was always curious just how elite of a team they managed to maintain, so thanks for your comment. Edit to add: whoever the devs were and are, hat tip for a remarkably stable system that does what it’s supposed to do. Since Kiln 2.2 or so landed way back when, the FogBugz/Kiln combo has done everything we need for support and development. Much to their sales team’s chagrin, it can be difficult to justify an upgrade, despite the allure of feature and performance updates.

krallja 9y ago
That article about zero attrition was written in 2007: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/category/reading-lists/tech-lead/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/category/reading-lists/tech-l... At this point I think everyone who was working at Fog Creek in 2007 has left, including me. (Though I came back in 2013 and am still here.) We have an excellent team, continuing to innovate on Manuscript and Glitch. We spun off Trello, which was acquired by Atlassian for almost half a billion dollars. We co-created Stack Overflow, which continues to be incredible.
- shoover 9y ago
  Good point. Trello and SO are both phenomenal pieces of software that I use all the time and recommend to others. All of this stuff is fits a need and does its job reliably. Well done.