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duttish • yesterday at 7:21 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

To semi-quote a higher up at $dayJob, at BigTech, talking to his directors: "If your engineers aren't fungible you're bad at your jobs".

Everyone should just be a small cog in a big machine.


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laughing_man • yesterday at 7:32 PM

But that's just good management. You can't have your organization struggle because someone gets hit by a bus or quits suddenly.

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ffsm8 • yesterday at 7:28 PM

yeah, most large employers think like that.

it remains to be seen if thats going to be the way in ~10 years after the dust has settled.

i suspect those middle managers will try to fight tooth and nail to hold onto that status quo, because it leaves them with all the power.

cucumber3732842 • yesterday at 8:24 PM

Fungibility is tangential to the sort of culture shift I'm talking about.