This sort of “manually induced churn” is absolutely god awful for a code base. I’ve seen the exact product of this type of management.

And then, because the code base is so awful, the only productive people are the ones who have been around long enough to avoid the culling, but they’re also dealing with how bad it is, so even their productivity comes to a near-grinding-halt.

and management wonders why nothing is getting done. It must be because they need more engineers… and the cycle continues.

clipboard?

edit: can we just say the company names, this site is anonymous lmao

that would make sense - they've reached out to me frequently over the years - seemed a bit desperate. Stopped the interview process the first time after learning what their PM salaries across a couple of levels were from an acquaintance who had recently interviewed there and realized they didn't value engineer's time.