If this is a all it takes to be in a "death spiral" then we're way past the event horizon and in a vertical free-fall.
Call me when your hiring process is brain dead, there's no management training, 6 month reviews are tied to bonuses, governance only happens yearly, "phase two" is the punchline of the never ending joke of quality, and 60%+ of the engineers are contractors...
Call me when your hiring process is brain dead, there's no management training, 6 month reviews are tied to bonuses, governance only happens yearly, "phase two" is the punchline of the never ending joke of quality, and 60%+ of the engineers are contractors...