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Re:Ask HN: How do I help an underperforming team get on track on Sunday September 27, 2020 @03:15PM (#24609361)
I just left a position after being threatened with these layoffs. I was 2nd most sr. in the engineering team and left many incomplete projects. They canned the rest of the team and moved to outsourced labor.

This may be career suicide, just saying.

Re:Ask HN: How do I help an underperforming team get on track on Sunday September 27, 2020 @03:13PM (#24609340)
I just left a position where the lead engineer was misleading the team manager and would threaten to get folks fired for stumbling upon the deception. I think team managers need a modicum of technical knowledge, or else there's room for this sort of dysfunction.