The AI Flagged Your Best Engineer for Cuts: Alisa Reznik on Why People Decisions Stay Human

The Operating System Show · Sep 1, 2026 · 38m

A tracking system did exactly what it was built to do. It showed one senior engineer closing seventy percent fewer tickets than everyone around him, and the CEO put him on the list of people to cut. Alisa Reznik made him go have the conversation first. The engineer was spending his days unblocking the rest of the team, which is why their numbers looked so good and his looked so bad. Alisa spent nearly two decades managing engineers, worked with more than fifty tech companies, and ran operations as a COO across offices in three countries before leaving to build her own practice, Leadify. She…