> People instead value deadlines This is definitely true, and is a cultural thing, and deadlines are like, one of the most quintessentially big corpo dysfuncti

> People instead value deadlines This is definitely true, and is a cultural thing, and deadlines are like, one of the most quintessentially big corpo dysfunctions ever. > It's not individual contributors When you have a surgical complication, do you blame the admins and the hospital bureaucracy? No. When you lose a court case, who's fault is it? Do you blame the clerks? Do you blame the Attorney General? No. > does not value quality and barely has a sense of it at all I haven't met an "individual contributor" who cares about that shit in my life. Among the ones who do a lot of work all day, the rare few, the guys with the greasy hair and the track pants who live alone in Sunnyvale for a year, they have consistently been the least interested in a holistic sense of quality. You will say, oh the managers gave them the goals. Dude the managers do fucking nothing. They say the same shit to everyone, the "IC" has all the agency. They can work, or not work as much as they want. In fact the hardest working ICs I know are relentlessly optimizing for meeting immediate, dull goals. The ICs are almost always working on consumer products that are tremendously shitty and buggy. Listen, who the fuck is responsible? Everyone! Why do you give the trackpants guys a pass? They're dicks!