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IMO with layoffs and RTO these companies have shown us their priority is to manage towards mediocrity and predictable business model over excellence/innovation.
by softwaredoug 3y ago
IMO with layoffs and RTO these companies have shown us their priority is to manage towards mediocrity and predictable business model over excellence/innovation. Those who can will leave. But that won’t hurt the company IMO, who will get plenty of “good enough” folks to join the ranks to keep the lights on.
I suspect eventually this will bite them. It already bit Google with ChatGPT who decided their priority was executing on a search business over other ways of accessing information.
But these are juggernauts companies that can f around a long time before they find out.
- CSMastermind 3y ago> IMO with layoffs and RTO these companies have shown us their priority is to manage towards mediocrity and predictable business model over excellence/innovation. To be clear: that's always been the case. Large enterprises prioritize predictability over excellence. That's the entire point of bureaucracy: you add a floor a the expense of also having a ceiling.
- softwaredoug 3y agoFor sure. Though pre-covid, I wouldn't say many of these companies (at least perception wise) thought of themselves in those terms. They were perceived as the cool-hip tech companies that constantly disrupt industries... Now that veil has lifted.
- hot_gril 3y agoGoogle fell behind ChatGPT well before they laid anyone off, forced RTO, or anything like that. They fell behind Zoom before the pandemic even happened. Having an "engineer-driven" company doesn't mean it executes well on products.