> How comes? Politics, workers rights and so forth. You really can't just fire hundreds and potentially thousands of employees without cause. A lot of compan

> How comes? Politics, workers rights and so forth. You really can't just fire hundreds and potentially thousands of employees without cause. A lot of companies will have to provide a career path for many of these managers. > If people think they can just eyeball it with "Engineering metrics", they should read this I think we both know this, along with many people here at HN, but HN doesn't reflect what I've personally seen. I'm trying to advocate for "Developer First Software Metrics", which is what my tool is focused on, but I've had far too many conversations with potential customers that wants to sum up a developers worth with a simple chart. In the business world, we don't assume business intelligence will come easy, which is why we hire business intelligence specialist. However for engineering metrics, this attitude isn't quite there yet and many and I mean many companies with non-traditional tech backgrounds want to believe they can easily quantify a developers worth with superficial metrics. Because in a lot of ways, they see developers like factory workers, where their unit of work can be easily quantified.