"Companies exist to allocate resources" is 100% correct, but not in the way Musk and engineering culture think. Most office workers are of the interviewer's IQ

"Companies exist to allocate resources" is 100% correct, but not in the way Musk and engineering culture think. Most office workers are of the interviewer's IQ or less, meaning they can't "just make the product better." But we can't let their families starve. So we hire them to do things within their means, which is largely chasing their tail via powerpoint, jira, and long email chains. Again, companies exist to allocate resources, that is, they feed and clothe the IQ bulge bracket of the population.