[dilyevsky]

I have an opposite experience in one of my last gigs where hired management batted 50% mishire rate where people just didn’t do anything at all or worse shipped something that needn't to even exist of quality so bad that the project had to be scrapped. This was allowed to drag on for years.

Last I heard he eventually got rid of most of them when the company fell on hard times and had to do a bunch of layoffs. By that point the damage was already done and most good people have left or quite quit.

Imo it’s a common misconception that management doesn’t know who low performers are. In most cases they know even if the team is large, they just choose to ignore it for whatever political reasons