> From my experience employers are not trying to retain talents except of stars. A lot of companies are firing people and keeping some kind of skeleton crew, a

> From my experience employers are not trying to retain talents except of stars. A lot of companies are firing people and keeping some kind of skeleton crew, and a lot of institutional (tacit) knowledge is being lost, and at the time those companies/teams need to do some of the fix or evolution in their product, everything takes at least 3x more time and effort. I can see in some interviews for MLE/DE where companies aren't hiring for new products and/or sustain and support (OK, fair enough for this market), but the ones hiring are actually doing that for deep issues in terms of technical debt or losses in terms of institutional knowledge that went away with the layoff. One company was offering some lateral movement in terms of role plus 10% salary increase to essentially migrate their whole orchestration system, move away all data pipelines from Scala to Python, and do the knowledge transfer because most of their staff just quit or was fired and none of their DS/MLE (star staff) knew about those technologies. Unless I'm unemployed, there is no way I would leave my job to a death march project like this and get fired after 6 months.