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Big companies are not rational. Organizational inertia is very difficult to overcome. If you have a company that's grown for 30 years as a hardware company and
by dpe82 7y ago
Big companies are not rational.
Organizational inertia is very difficult to overcome. If you have a company that's grown for 30 years as a hardware company and as a result the whole management structure is filled with people who got to their positions by being good with hardware, it's very difficult for them to appreciate the importance of something like software with which they're unfamiliar. Some managers would even perceive raising the profile of a software group as a threat to their own power and influence and may even actively fight it.
- CountSessine 7y agoIt’s worse than that because even once the hardware engineers have identified software as a deficiency and decide that they need to start hiring some software people, it’s the hardware people who will hire the software people to begin with. Will they wind up with good software people? Who knows! Worse, the hardware people will usually be calling the shots and won’t see past their BOM cost. Will the hardware get a decent CPU? Probably not!