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Strongly disagree. If it was an executive fired for ignoring a security issue then no institutional knowledge would be lost. That's in engineering.

I was talking about executives and high ranking managers, not devs. Firing someone for a bug or honest mistake would be ridiculous.

Executives and high ranking managers might not be people to you, but they also have invaluable institutional knowledge that will lost if they get fired.

Creating fiefdoms and executing layoffs isn't really invaluable institutional knowledge.

Thousands of new MBAs are minted each day, practically a commodity at this point.

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> assuming no malfeasance, firing people just leads to institutional knowledge loss which would lead to worse outcomes.

You should meet my director who wants everything to be covered under the rug while he focuses on empire building.