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Ask HN: What is the fundamental difference between engineering and marketing?
- sidlls 9y agoIn most organizations the difference is clear: marketing provides a clear benefit to the business in the form of brand recognition, sales, and stickiness while engineering is a cost not unlike the costs a retailer incurs sourcing products: sometimes it delivers substandard products and sometimes spectacular ones. There is a relationship between the two, but they're different disciplines with different goals and different methods to achieve them.
- abeTom 9y agoThat's like asking, "what's the difference between the f22 and its sales brochure?" Not trying to be mean, but I don't understand the comparison. They are wholly different in nature. Engineering takes a desired outcome in the physical or virtual world and, using principals of math(computer science), physics and chemistry, reduced to reliable functional mechanisms aggregated in a logical fashion, constructs a device that produces on demand the desired outcome. Marketing, on the other hand, takes a desired outcome in sales and, using the powers of persuasion, produces the desired outcome of greater sales ( I suppose). so, engineering ===> math, physics, chemistry. marketing ===> persuasion.