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The hidden cost of layoffs. @TitusWinters, Principal Software Engineer & co-author of…

The hidden cost of layoffs. @TitusWinters, Principal Software Engineer & co-author of Software Engineering at Google,…

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The hidden cost of layoffs. @TitusWinters, Principal Software Engineer & co-author of Software Engineering at Google, on how layoffs change how engineers show up: “Layoffs are stressful. I've had experiences of there being layoffs and just it'll be weeks or months of every one-on-one starting with, so how are you doing? How are you coping? There's this huge amount of negative performance influence of like, okay, we have to emotionally support each other first before we even get back to doing the work. I am very skeptical that in the executive accounting of all of this, that they're taking i

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