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Re:Dealing with engineers that frequently leave their jobs by wpietri on Monday September 10, 2012 @01:20PM (#4500875)
It was closed at "not constructive", which is obviously thought untrue by the hundreds of people who engaged with it. So I can't agree with the specific closing.

It is a mystery to me why a question that yields some answers that are directly about engineers and some that could apply more widely could be considered off topic. One answer explicitly cites the Joel Test. Another specifically discussed the economics of software development, and why the management behavior is pathological specifically for engineering organizations. How much more on topic does one need to be?

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Re:Dealing with engineers that frequently leave their jobs by yrizos on Monday September 10, 2012 @05:15PM (#4502295)
Hundreds of people engaging in a question is actually a very good hint that it's Not Constructive (just a hint though). Remember, Programmers and every other Stack Exchange site are about questions and answers, not discussions.
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Re:Dealing with engineers that frequently leave their jobs by wpietri on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @02:49AM (#4504131)
We have deeply different ideas of what constructive means.
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