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by forgotmylogin2 2247 days ago
Can you explain more about why you think they would need an excuse to re-structure?

If they thought their senior engineers were getting paid too much, what was stopping them from cutting their salaries before the pandemic?

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I suspect legal liability to be a big factor.

I imagine, for a manager to get rid of someone on performance grounds needs heck a lot more work and time than getting on the company wide blanket firing bandwagon.

"We hate to let you go but we have no options in these challenging times" gets less opposition from employees and more legal stance over any performance related reason.

Sad.