This hits close to home.

Conversely, when an engineer or engineering manager repeatedly raises an issue and is told that they need to make it work by a date or there’s hell to pay, there’s no point in having the skip level conversations. The engineers just leave.

The diagnosis was straightforward: nobody at executive level had known engineers were unhappy until they resigned

This entire article can get shut down with one sentence: if you are unhappy, you are replaced. The people who should be reading this article will never read the article. So this is just preaching to the choir