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POV: The highest paid engineer at your company gets fired (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 months ago by cm0002@lemdro.id to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] bss03@infosec.pub 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I agree that John was the problem, but I think it was management responsibly to fix. Either through some coaching or as you say, before he became business-critical.