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by drevil-v2 940 days ago
This is not going to be popular but I have noticed the same phenomenon at other companies where hiring decisions (especially for management hires) is a diversity quota exercise.

The decline is slow at first but compounds rapidly. Smart and lazy people leave first. Average but ambitious employees leave. Smart and hard working folks are the last to leave. Leaving the grifters and dumb & lazy to pick through the remains.

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>(especially for management hires) is a diversity quota exercise.

Tangential, but a less obvious way of decline is hiring people you trust ( old friends, classmates etc.) but who are be other wise incompetent.

What the hell