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I work at a company like this. From what I gather, it seems to have started out as a fine product-oriented business, but turned into what it is today due to the

I work at a company like this. From what I gather, it seems to have started out as a fine product-oriented business, but turned into what it is today due to the incentives involved. We sell our product primarily through public sector invitations to tender, where what matters is hitting a bunch of feature checkboxes on a list, with zero regard for the actual quality of the product. You get exactly what you pay for.

ChuckNorris89 4y ago
>what matters is hitting a bunch of feature checkboxes on a list, with zero regard for the actual quality of the product. This is true for most government contracts in most countries. It gets worse with government contracts involving tech products and services as most governments don't have any skilled and knowledgeable tech people working for them, even in Germany, because why would they work for the toxic and underpaying public sector when they could earn more and get more respect in the private sector. This way, you only retain clueless people who only heard about the internet from a book, don't care about learning or improving things and are just there for a cushy job, ticking boxes and filing paperwork till retirement. If you want to hire skilled tech workers you gotta pay them well and give them freedom, which is not usually what government jobs are all about. From what I've heard, Denmark is a great example of a well run, transparent government, which also employs skilled tech workers to develop high quality government software in house, instead of farming it all off to slimy companies who are gonna ship low quality trash at insane markups.