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I recently interviewed for an engineering manager position at a startup and one of the first questions was how much I wanted to fire underperformers. I explained that firing meant management had a problem, either by not screening correctly or by not giving engineers the support and environment they need to perform, and that I could do it once but would always consider it a management problem, not an individual contributor's, so they could not expect me to do it regularly, preferring instead..1/2