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We don't know that the team was actually dropping the ball.

But even if they had been, addressing it in a way that sounds like you're saying "you clowns, I can throw out your months of work, and do it myself 10 times better in a weekend" (whether or not that's accurate) from the PM... sounds like a good way to ruin morale of a team, and seed a toxic engineering culture throughout the department/company.

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« Whether or not that’s accurate » is not a minor detail. Some people need to be told when they’re doing shite work, otherwise how can they learn ? The forever supportive culture has some limits and sometimes a bit of spanking can be a great boost, and help you make the required radical changes in your life that you need.

You do ask - if the performance was not great before with a team of 10, what was the culture like before? Sometimes, the only way to improve matters is to build up a new team and sideline the previous one where it can't do more damage.

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