@gotofritz But performance evaluations and the notion of a 10x developer (or, conversely, slacker employees, or the idea that 20% of the employees do the actual work while the rest coast doing nothing) is still strongly ingrained in tech culture.
2. Layoffs are almost entirely counterproductive and a symptom of severe mismanagement. They almost never improve productivity or profit and quite often end up destroying a lot of shareholder value. Same thing with mergers and acquisitions btw