Great response. . . I have some friends (let's call them A and B) who worked together years ago, both solid engineers. One of them (A) is perhaps not a 10x engi

Great response. . . I have some friends (let's call them A and B) who worked together years ago, both solid engineers. One of them (A) is perhaps not a 10x engineer (I kind of have a problem with that term and the way it's tossed around) but pretty damn close. B told me one day that when A left, the company foolishly failed to offer him a counter offer to stay. The way B put it was "they literally could have paid A one million dollars per year and dumped the rest of the team but they couldn't wrap their heads around that and of course didn't. When A left, the team went right down the toilet and they closed that whole branch of their product line" A bit of an extreme example, but yes as you pointed out, not one that "the suits" can really grok, or HR for that matter.