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That is so bad. They could’ve left 1 or 2 for the benefit of CS as a whole. They are undercutting their own future talent pool this way.


One of the biggest questions when doing layoffs is whether you should kill entire teams or cut more teams by a small amount. A 1-2 person team is often very bad for people's careers and creates major sustainability problems when people take vacations or leave or whatever.

I am sad that codejam is gone. I'm not certain that a skeleton crew would have been good for the skeleton crew.


Unless they see Bard as fulfilling that.




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