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Another "morons are good managers" kind of article... As far as I heard, this attitude is currently killing Google. Google has lots of MBAs to manage hackers a
by johnx123-up 15y ago
Another "morons are good managers" kind of article...
As far as I heard, this attitude is currently killing Google. Google has lots of MBAs to manage hackers and it really hurts Google.
- danshapiro 15y agoI don't think you have either: a) read the article, or b) the first clue of what's going on inside Google. Rand is not a moron, nor is he advocating management by morons. He's not an MBA either; he's a self-taught college dropout. He's saying that company founders who are nontechnical should be humble but not ashamed. Google may have faults, but hiring MBAs to manage engineers is certainly not one of them. The engineering management hierarchy is almost exclusively extremely technical.
- johnx123-up 15y agoEverybody I know there in Google confirms that MBAs are really crippling it. Recently I had a lengthy discussion with couple of them on that. They do have politics and chaos. Self-taught and nontechnical are two different terms. In real world scenario, self-taught people often associate themselves with "technical".