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It’s ok to let them go.

• marcinzm 7y ago
  That depends on the situation and is the CTO's decision to make. Given the difficulty and time frames of hiring letting go could mean another 6 months of too few engineers. Acting like there is a single universal answer is the wrong world view I'd say.
  • wpietri 7y ago
    If you have a nominally full compliment of people who are over-building or playing around with shiny toys instead of delivering value, then you still have too few actual engineers, but are paying a lot more money for the privilege. You're also setting up a bill that will come due eventually. I've made some really good money going into companies and ripping out the hot-three-years-ago garbage that some long-gone goof put in. Last time this happened I looked up the responsible party. Turned out he was doing the work so he could give a conference talk on shiny tech. Not long after the talk was done, he took a job somewhere else, leaving his buzzword-compliant half-baked system to rot.