[Aeolun]

> It's another if you lose the most qualified and respected 6%.

I doubt that’s the case. The people deciding to lay off are just getting rid of 6% of their ‘resources’, they don’t consider that those 6% might be doing 50% of the work.

So 3 years on they’re just wondering why their engineering team is so useless, and thinking back to the good old times.

[gtop3]

1. My comment was on managing churn rate, not layoffs.

2. My comment described a process in which talented engineers self select to leave companies, and management only had indirect input on which engineers leave.

[nr2x]

I think you’re spot on. Elves and whatnot.