diff --git a/tsconfig.base.json b/tsconfig.base.json
index 5220601e794b0..865806cffe5bb 100644
--- a/tsconfig.base.json
+++ b/tsconfig.base.json
@@ -36,8 +36,6 @@
     // Resolve modules in the same way as Node.js. Aka make `require` works the
     // same in TypeScript as it does in Node.js.
     "moduleResolution": "node",
-    // Do not resolve the real path of symlinks
-    "preserveSymlinks": true,
     // "resolveJsonModule" allows for importing, extracting types from and generating .json files.
     "resolveJsonModule": true,
     // Disallow inconsistently-cased references to the same file.