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> Cutting costs leads to the opposite of an engineering-driven culture. Not if "the engineers" are cutting the costs? There has not been any big corp. job I've
by rightbyte 3y ago
> Cutting costs leads to the opposite of an engineering-driven culture.
Not if "the engineers" are cutting the costs? There has not been any big corp. job I've been on that does not have these huge overhead of back scratching upper manager class expenses in marketing, conferences, fancy offices, consultants etc.
The only big flaw I feel I would share with the usual suspects is vanity projects.
Then again, it is probably really hard to run a company with B2B deals with out the implicit "bribing" of the manager class of the other companies.
- rwmj 3y agoI think it's more that activist shareholders (think the likes of Carl Icahn or even Warren Buffet) are not engineers. They're selected for their personalities, being able to quickly read senior management at a company, and a head for financial engineering. Arguing against myself: management buy-outs are a thing too, and it's possible for a highly technical person to end up buying out their own company (Dell being an example). Also technical people can end up getting promoted to senior leadership in existing MBA-driven companies (example, Intel).