WHY YOUR BEST ENGINEERS ARE INTERVIEWING ELSEWHERE

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

High engineering turnover stems from executives being out of touch with on-the-ground realities due to hierarchical information filtering. This filtering prevents executives from addressing engineer concerns like overruled technical judgments, accumulating technical debt, and meaningless work, leading to disengagement and costly replacements. To combat this, it's best to have regular skip-level conversations between executives and engineers to bypass filtering and act on engineer feedback, which is cheaper than the costs associated with high turnover.