An Elite Software Engineer's Company Laid Off 25 People - My Advice to Him Since He was Not Impacted

My post on February 22nd spoke about how software engineering cultures can be significantly compromised when a company undergoes a large layoff. Interestingly enough, this is a story regarding my words of advice to an elite software engineer that I strongly endorsed staying at his employer after they had a sizable reduction in force. Let's call him Mahesh... Mahesh is an incredible developer and…