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If his decision was purely based on "lines of code written", then I would agree, that's not a great way to interpret developer worth.First he fired people based on the amount of code they'd written. There are some obvious problems with this approach. For example, more efficient code is shorter code, so on a like for like basis, a better coder would write less code. Another problem would be that, if a person's job was to correct code that was written by someone else, they wouldn't have written much code at all.
Not surprisingly, he tried to re-hire some of them when he realised he'd made a novice, schoolboy mistake.
He then gave the remaining staff an option; work much harder for the same pay or he'll pay them to leave.
Not surprisingly, most of the remaining staff chose to take the payment.
The least a person could expect of their employer is that they know what they are doing. He has demonstrated that he doesn't. Why should anyone working anywhere be expected to put up with their employer being an incompetent idiot?
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