A determined senior engineer could destroy a company in a day. At large companies they could cost the company millions.
While we like to pretend there are technical controls to prevent this, actually effective measures would come at a high cost to productivity.
And at huge FAANG companies replace "department or team" for company above. A bad hire can destroy a team or product or the team's reputation in the company.
Brain surgeons are not high stakes hires because they're not operating on their employer's brain and there are inherent barriers to entry in that field. The "brain surgeon" license actually means a lot.
While we like to pretend there are technical controls to prevent this, actually effective measures would come at a high cost to productivity.
And at huge FAANG companies replace "department or team" for company above. A bad hire can destroy a team or product or the team's reputation in the company.
Brain surgeons are not high stakes hires because they're not operating on their employer's brain and there are inherent barriers to entry in that field. The "brain surgeon" license actually means a lot.