> 6) for a very long time, FT’s top leadership (and I mean like the top 4-5 management layers, including all the excom and the CEO - basically anyone at VP leve

> 6) for a very long time, FT’s top leadership (and I mean like the top 4-5 management layers, including all the excom and the CEO - basically anyone at VP level or above) came almost exclusively from a small group of engineers, the “Corps des Télécoms” There will be plenty to write about the incredible damage done to France by polytechnicians in the last fifty years. I used to work for another state owned company and they were still catapulting freshly graduated polytechnician to important management position when I left a couple years ago. It was beyond funny because all the good elements who had already proved they were good at the actual job were getting deprived of promotion and just weren't listened to when it came time to take decision. They then either became jaded and stopped contributing or just left. Top management (themselves former polytechnicians) would keep communicating about how the rank and file was so ineffective and expensive while all their improvement plans kept failing. Meanwhile, Polytechnique keeps using its clout to sabotage any effort to reform the French higher education system.