It’s not “execs dumb and bad,” it’s that execs have different priorities than you think they do, which I think is partially dandare’s point. Executives at a la

It’s not “execs dumb and bad,” it’s that execs have different priorities than you think they do, which I think is partially dandare’s point. Executives at a large company are divorced from your reality at your level of the job. Incidentally, that’s part of the fun of working at smaller companies, though the variance is higher there’s also the potential to work more closely with good earnest executives who also want the company to succeed.