I am not too surprised by this. The secrecy and compartmentalization at Apple enables this sort of stuff to happen more often. This wouldn't happen as much at

I am not too surprised by this. The secrecy and compartmentalization at Apple enables this sort of stuff to happen more often. This wouldn't happen as much at a place like Google with a perf review system calibrated across the company where the manager has little control. There was a well-known incident at Apple where there was an entirely team that quit, except for a handful of folks who were dependent on the company for their visas and would have had to sell everything and leave the country if they also quit at that time.