[gamblor956]

If there isn't sufficient work available, there isn't sufficient work.

For a highly-paid employee, you sometimes just can't create sufficient other work for them to do if you eliminate the work they were originally doing and other people are already doing the work they could putatively have been assigned to.

And quite honestly, a person's understanding of non-engineering functions would have to be extremely limited to think that more than a fraction of them could be automated away. Software has been the "it" industry for decades now. Jobs that haven't been automated by now are hard for software/robotics to take over.

[malandrew]

At both AirBnB and Lyft, I promise you there is sufficient work. I've had AirBnB employees ask me about joining the company to work on a large money saving problem I've got experience with that I'm certain they still have because it wouldn't be possible to have implemented since the last time I was asked.

[jmchuster]

There are definitely similar such needs at basically every company, but allocation of resources is not perfectly efficient (and often far from it).

[stormbeard]

Lyft is still hiring generalist SWEs after laying off 12% of the engineering staff.