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When management makes statements like "we don't need [to pay for] senior engineers here, these are mature products... ", and clearly putting finance first among
by toss1 7y ago
When management makes statements like "we don't need [to pay for] senior engineers here, these are mature products... ", and clearly putting finance first among corporate goals, the natural result is that engineering dies a death by a thousand cuts...
- MaupitiBlue 7y ago> When management makes statements like "we don't need [to pay for] senior engineers here The problem is that Boeing management never said that. Moreover, the fired CEO was an engineer.
- TheOtherHobbes 7y agoThe important word being "was". As an engineer, he was accountable to reality. As a CEO, he was accountable to the board and the financials. Guess which won.
- Brave-Steak 7y agoMuilenberg became CEO in 2015. The McDouglas thing happened in '97. He inherited an existing management structure that was already primarily interested in profit over all other concerns, especially engineering. Moreover, the 737 Max program ran from 2011-2015. The CEO at the time was an MBA.