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Had very similar experiences at not even a "big company" it's more of a mentality of a "Big Co.". People hired to just not care, sit at meetings to make manager
by leroman 5y ago
Had very similar experiences at not even a "big company" it's more of a mentality of a "Big Co.". People hired to just not care, sit at meetings to make managers feel important and provide some pseudo progress to higer-ups to make things look like they are moving somewhere.
In reality, I have not doubt a half decent motivated engineer can replace a group of these unmotivated developers, which I have seen done and did my self in the past.
The real reason unmotivated engineers are there and things work this way in a company, in my experience, is bad management. Good people leave, who ever is left does what ever they can, those who care, suffer.
- nicbou 5y agoThe last line is accurate. You either give up and leave, or stay and become part of them. It's really hard to stay and effect change.
- tmitchel2 5y agoYup nailed it
- TomDavey 5y agoYou just described the thesis of one of the wisest books I've ever read, Albert O. Hirschman's 1970 classic "Exit, Voice, and Loyalty." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit%2C_Voice%2C_and_Loyalty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit%2C_Voice%2C_and_Loyalty
- cutemonster 5y agoThanks! I read the whole Wikipedia page and a bit more (this far), started thinking about the book.
- cutemonster 5y agoBtw that book explains why sometimes a police force or the military in a country can be recklessly violent, and consist largely of men who happily do all sorts of atrocities