Lie to their team about their criticality, before laying off half of the same team
Replace large amounts of management 3 times in a single year
Hire so many people nobody knows what their role is and everyone competes for influence
Ensure that every engineer has at least 5 hours of meetings a day, half of which aren’t relevant to their team.
Stack ranking
Don’t give them a raise for years despite praising them for being a top performer with large impact
Arbitrary KPAs which undervalue anything other than LoC
Make people be on call with no training for what theyre being on call for, and have critical alarms go off every 3 hours
Host meetings in front of your giant glass wine cellar larger than most your employees apartments. Bonus points if you talk about belt tightening in that meeting
Make sure that things never calm down after a giant release, make it the new normal until people start dropping out on medical leave, then install a new engineering leader who loudly states that he thinks the engineering team is lazy
Fire or layoff people, give their duties to an already busy engineer, promise that engineer it’s short term but never replace them, give that engineer a middling performance rating for not excelling at their “core” job despite doing the work of 3 previous engineers, deny them a raise, get a promotion and a massive raise as a manager