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It would not surprise me if firing 75% of working programmers would have a net result of more, higher quality software being created.

• tracker1 7y ago
  Possibly, the other half is convincing management that some developers are really worth 2-3x as much.
  • amurthy1 7y ago
    The other half is agreeing on who those 25% are
  • Aeolun 7y ago
    Just having 4x less people to communicate with would be a net positive, so I’d be happy with that even if we didn’t get a raise :P
• dentemple 7y ago
  ... unless, of course, it's management deciding to fire the engineers in the top 75% salary band. Which they would be inclined to do given this scenerio.
  • thrower123 7y ago
    I'm not even sure that wouldn't be a net improvement. There are a hell of a lot of people not doing much besides increasing communication overhead and friction and bikeshedding.
• terminaljunkid 7y ago
  Firing most of middle managers is required too.