Ouch, yeah. I appreciate your topicality with this comment given the recent saga of tech layoffs. Much luck to you if you're in that experience right now!! Say you got fired form a S.Eng job at 350K yearly and some young grunt on 165K slid into your DMs and wanted to meet to chat. What would make you agree to that? I think it's unlikely, but perhaps if they reflected to you all the things you already thought were stupid about that company, and that you suffered with. You would want to help them as in their suffering, you could see your own, despite getting laid off. I think in that situation, there's a chance you might actually go over the codebase with them, in a conversation that mixed 1 part that, with 1 part self-commiserating and complaining/airing/venting about the org.

What at first seems an unlikely pairing, I think, given the right "relational config" in moment could actually end up working pretty well. Seems there's plenty opportunities for such a coupling to have many fruitful outputs for both parties.