[notyourday]

I worked closely with a few during my career in a few companies. It is a retirement plan of people who neither can nor want to perform after they "put in time". These days as someone who gets to give my couple of cents to folks in the upper echelons of promising companies I tell the newly minted CTOs to either not hire them or if they are already hired, fire them.

Staff engineer and above = 45 year old soccer player bench warmer getting the pay 22 year old striker.

[sakopov]

So you suggest firing people based on their title alone? Sounds pretty damn stupid.

[notyourday]

> So you suggest firing people based on their title alone? Sounds pretty damn stupid.

You can look through the threads in this comment section and in other comment sections of threads that touched on Staff Engineers and Senior staff engineers. People perfectly illustrate why the companies would do well firing them - people describe that as their dream "retirement" job.

Yes, I suggest firing every single one of them. They are non-performing group eating enormous compensation packages.

[dare944]

I read it as saying you should fire someone because of their age. Not stupid, malicious.

[giuscri]

so what one should do after a certain age?

[notyourday]

Continue to perform or live off the savings.