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I think of myself as someone who is relatively skeptical of authority, but even so it's hard to disabuse myself of the notion that company leadership is there d
by droopyEyelids 5y ago
I think of myself as someone who is relatively skeptical of authority, but even so it's hard to disabuse myself of the notion that company leadership is there due to meritocratic reasons.
Just because they're VPs in the biggest company in the world doesn't mean they're actually smarter or more capable than a random person selected from the population at large. Some of them might be, but SOO many people are in their spots due to the accident of their birth and other random processes that happened afterwards.
- dekhn 5y agoI wouldn't say any of the SVPs I met at Google during my era (probably 6-7 SVPs) that I thought any of them were dumb. And several were some of the smartest people I've met. But that's the problem with Google: INT 18, WIS 3.
- yborg 5y ago>But that's the problem with Google: INT 18, WIS 3 This is the whole tech industry in a nutshell, not just Google.
- omarfarooq 5y ago> INT 18, WIS 3. Pardon?
- niij 5y agoHigh intellect, low wisdom. The shorthand here is common in games where your character has certain capabilities/stats: intellect (int), strength (str), defence (def), etc.
- actually_a_dog 5y agoIt's a D&D reference. Starting stats for (human) characters typically range from 3-18, corresponding to the range of 3 six sided dice. "INT 18" means "maximum normal human Intelligence." "WIS 3" means "lowest possible human Wisdom stat," where "Wisdom" roughly translates to "common sense."
- ahiknsr 5y ago> Some of them might be, but SOO many people are in their spots due to the accident of their birth and other random processes that happened afterwards. Disagree. If you are not smart, you wouldn't last long in those positions.
- spacemanmatt 5y agoPP did not imply favoritism got them into those positions and your comment doesn't address stochastic social processes. I declare a miscommunication.