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I think blaming MBA/Business/Sales people for everything is not reasonable Good sales people "want" make your company viable by having money Tech people "want
by tester756 5y ago
I think blaming MBA/Business/Sales people for everything is not reasonable
Good sales people "want" make your company viable by having money
Tech people "want" to have state of art product
Both are good things at different moments of company lifetime
It sucks to have only engineering people and no people who can do business.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoNo one wants 0 business people, but they don't want them making engineering decisions in a vacuum like business, accounting, and marketing often do at tech companies that don't emphasize engineering/architecture input.
- skohan 5y agoYeah and it’s way more common to have a problem due to business having too much of a voice than engineering. Business tends to be up-stream of engineering, so this leads to a natural power imbalance. A lot of tech companies have issues that could have been solved by treating engineering as a stakeholder instead of a resource.
- specialist 5y agoYou're right. Save some blame for Wall St and other financial types.
- xondono 5y agoThe problem is that these two targets have different timelines. Intel has been dropping the ball in engineering precisely because their teams seem to be focused exclusively on the next quarter/year results. In a market where it takes 5y to get a product out, you need your people focused in the long term.
- wbl 5y agoIf you have the product and can't sell it, game over. If you sell it but don't have it, customers will catch on and game over.