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Hah, sounds a lot like Big Blue. Boat loads of seniors who do “design” but can’t code anymore. They set the “agenda” and the grunts are supposed to just follow
by pm90 7y ago
Hah, sounds a lot like Big Blue. Boat loads of seniors who do “design” but can’t code anymore. They set the “agenda” and the grunts are supposed to just follow that advice. Stay there long enough and you begin to think you have no agency, nothing that you think matters since nobody is listening anyways.
The difference I think maybe that Seniors at google may actually be super smart, just not engaged.
- pishpash 7y agoIf you're smart and do nothing, what difference does it make?
- pm90 7y agoExcellent point. It doesn't really. I wonder if, looking at these examples, BigCo's are actually doing Tech a disservice by promoting the fuck out of high performers until they reach such a senior level that they don't need to do anything no more. I guess my concern is that these folks could have been accelerating the pace of tech even more, but are basically sitting out committees, managing others, and in general not making the kind of ground breaking progress they would have made otherwise. Kind of reminds me of Feynman's view of the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study; he viewed the institution as the place where good people went and stagnated.