Remember, back then companies had to hire dedicated Clear case engineers to get things working properly.

You mean just like we have to reach out to IT to sort out git issues for anyone that strays outside the path?

Not really a common occurrence here.

Does it happen often at your workplace? What kind of issues are we talking about?

Basically the usual ones that end up with copying the modified files to a temporary directory and doing a fresh clone followed by a manual merge and commit, because someone messed up their local repository while trying out some git command beyond clone/pull/push/checkout/commit, and now cannot push without messing everyone's else.

Interesting; that never, ever, ever happens where I work, and most of our engineers are fresh-outs.

How often does this happen? Doing a fresh clone should be a last resort.

A couple of times per month, not everyone is a git black belt.