Don't want to ask anything inappropriate, but how much of your time did it end up being? I remember they had some some kind of value where they want "every hire

Don't want to ask anything inappropriate, but how much of your time did it end up being? I remember they had some some kind of value where they want "every hire to be better than the last one" or some platitude. Seems like forced attrition is .. not ideal. Having some consistent way of assessing performance of engineers across teams, and then looking at the front end (hiring groups involved in creating the low performing teams) and on management (focus on who is accumulating higher numbers of low achievers) would be better. But having seen excessively stable R&D organizations, I completely agree that not getting rid of low achievers is extremely toxic to a high performing team (product quality and morale).