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There’s a reason they were laid off. I find this mind boggling, I’ve met so many mediocre and low performers that are still highly sought after by simple virtue of having done nothing at faang or Stanford. It’s basically the software engineering professions McKinsey. Everything they touch is a huge money sink with no real added value and probably long term damaging to society and yet somehow they all keep climbing the ladder. All while other actually high value people are just lost in the noise.

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I agree with you overall. But the reason someone is laid off mostly likely has no bearing on ability or actions. Not having the ability to influence layoff decisions doesn't mean you were a bad engineer or providing more value than others