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

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ive seen this pattern in many companies. I would say its the natural evolution of having a strong engineer stick with the same company for many years. He will eventually know so much that he makes his own solutions to fix things. Or she, can be a woman. Even though ive never seen that personally.