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While not fair to make sweeping generalizations, many of us engineers have had so many bad experiences with MBAs that it's hard to not lump them all together.
by xedrac 6y ago
While not fair to make sweeping generalizations, many of us engineers have had so many bad experiences with MBAs that it's hard to not lump them all together. Their need for control and culture shaping seem to directly harm engineering efforts in almost every case I've seen. I suppose in some ways they will always be at odds with one another.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 6y agoI would buy that. Speaking of generalizations, can we just all agree that all HR people are bad people and a pox upon this land?
- astrange 6y agoSurely the ones that run your payroll and 401k benefits are okay.
- goatinaboat 6y agoSurely the ones that run your payroll and 401k benefits are okay. The old "Personnel Department" did that perfectly well long before HR was a thing.
- tal8d 6y ago< 401k benefits Maybe it is because I've never worked in the valley, but I can't think of a positive 401k plan experience. I do remember a lot of onboarding powerpoint with regards to penalties and limitations. The whole thing feels coercive, having to participate in the market when you aren't interested in managing the position - simply to protect your savings from intentionally set inflation rates. All those "unsophisticated investors" (no joke, that is what they call you) are arguably the cause of the dot-com bubble as well, not because people were daytrading pets.com, but because fund managers had to put that surge of disinterested capital somewhere. I imagine that if powerpoint was around back in the day, the guys managing company store credit schemes would have functioned much like today's HR reps.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 6y agoPesky exceptions ruining perfectly good generalizations. You are right though. There is a reason for most roles. I just had my fill with HR lately so I am mildly biased against.