The strategic mistake is that they don’t have any other good ideas to deploy these folks toward. A company of this size and financial condition in technology with exceptional leadership should not be out of good ideas.

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matchbok3 2 days ago | parent [-]

I mean, no company ever has solved that problem soooo

	▲	nrb 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Well Apple seems to be able to largely avoid these staffing whiplash problems… I mainly call them problems because hugely scaling your org up and down on a whim is extremely inefficient when your recruiting and onboarding costs are high. Surely it’s more wise to repurpose the people you already have unless you have no time horizon on appropriate new areas of R&D.