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These are worrying times for VW if the new CEO to say something like this. Many VW engineers will be considering leaving if VW is going find a couple of enginee
by yitchelle 11y ago
These are worrying times for VW if the new CEO to say something like this. Many VW engineers will be considering leaving if VW is going find a couple of engineers as scapegoats, and not be back them up.
- Uhhrrr 11y agoPresumably there are a couple of engineers who deserve some of the blame, but wow, what better way to say "Our culture is poison". Both because they're throwing independent contributors under the bus, and because he's saying the culture is such that the engineers would think it's OK. To be fair, I think he might not have meant it to come out that way. EDIT: Looking again at the article, it seems like the US CEO isn't even aware of this: "The German automaker has suspended 10 senior managers, including three top engineers, as part of its internal investigation." So VW doesn't necessarily have a poisonous culture. But they do have a US CEO who doesn't prepare when he testifies to Congress.
- yitchelle 11y agoUnfortunately, we may never know the truth in the scenario. The way that automotive world works with the multi-tier supplier chain, anyone who is not close to the source, will never know where the real blame is. Behind the scenes in VW's HQ in Wolfsburg, it must be chaos.