> Far too many companies are designed as management empires instead of as engineers-as-drivers of change Well said. I'll just say that all companies (at least

> Far too many companies are designed as management empires instead of as engineers-as-drivers of change Well said. I'll just say that all companies (at least, large US-based ones) are like that. Every single one of them. The trick is to have a 'management empire' that's large enough that it spans most of the required functions. That way at least some engineers are able to move inside the fiefdom and not bump heads against some other high level manager's domain.