Comment by solardev

Well, I get that part of the argument, but I'm not sure I fully believe it. It's not so much the semantics I'm concerned about, but the idea that you should try to get a role in the money-making parts of the business... is that really what drives hiring/firing decisions? Over the last decade or so, at least, it feels like most of those hiring/layoff decisions were driven by aspirational future valuations instead. When money was cheap, they hired everybody. When money got expensive, they laid everyone off. I don't know that the sales people survived any better than the devs, did they?

Seems like the macro staffing trends are more driven by market conditions than a reasoned accounting of staffing ROIs, whereas the micro decisions (who on the team to let go) is more a political and maybe seniority or performance thing.

I'm not a manager though, so maybe that's just how it works up higher and I don't see it. But from the peasant's eye view, at least, it doesn't seem like that's how those decisions are being made...