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- golf buddy convinces CEO of well-run software shop: your company is way too inefficient "your per-employee ratios are off the charts low!"
- golf buddy gets hired as Chief Strategy Officer, hires a bunch of high paid underlings
- they decide the freeze wages, reduces bonuses, reduces benefits for software engineers. Lots of savings to show! (unless you also count inflated salaries of new management)
- Software engineers demoralized, best ones move on to better jobs, adverse selection, more demoralization
- Golf buddy hires more project managers -- because obviously the answer to underpaid SWEs is to hire more managers. Beatings will continue until morale improves.
- Now the company really does have bad metrics. Decisions are made to offshore half the staff -- save 30%, but increase work for onshore staff. Offshore staff is great, but at a disadvantage due to distance and not having context/proximity to business.
- Golf buddy hires product managers to better define specs, more project managers to produce more reports.
- Gold buddy, his friends, ride off with their big paychecks to spoil the next company