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Oh man, I hear this on every such topic. It is in no way virtually impossible to fire someone, you just can't do it willy nilly because you don't like someone's face. You just have to follow well defined procedures (pip is a thing here too)

This. It's reasonably easy to fire someone, provided you have genuine cause.

> in some countries it is virtually impossible to fire.

Compared to the US, it may seem to be virtually impossible, but people are fired here too.

You can still have senior engineers for less than 100k€ (including taxes and everything that the company have to pay for)

That’s even cheaper if you hire them as contractors