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Business people continue to collect large paychecks while technical debt ruins their companies ability to deliver innovative product. There are no repercussion
by ldjkfkdsjnv 3y ago
Business people continue to collect large paychecks while technical debt ruins their companies ability to deliver innovative product.
There are no repercussions, and no mechanism to correct this. There's also no easy visibility into the fact that this is occurring, aside from the mental strain on junior/mid level engineers.
Even at the principle engineer level, the incentive is to continue collecting paychecks and not rock the boat.
There are many exceptions among technically sophisticated companies, but your average old school company is really a vessel for corporate careerists to build personal wealth.
But all of the above assume that technical debt should be fixed, alot of the time its a huge waste of resources to fix with minimal business value. Most money flowing into a company comes from a few systems, everything else is not worth it.
- elmerfud 3y agoWhat's wrong with me viewing the business as a way for me to personally build wealth? I want to do a good job and I want to do the best of my abilities but I cannot care more than the management infrastructure does. The entire purpose of the corporation is to build wealth for their shareholders and the board so what incentive do I have that they do not have? How can I be more invested in the company than the owners and leadership of that company? Maybe it wasn't your intention but it seems like your post is blaming the engineers for the problem rather than the people who allocate the engineers time. The engineering staff is just operating according to the demonstrated core company principles. Of which those poor principles are usually greed.
- ldjkfkdsjnv 3y agoWhen high level management optimizes for personal wealth we end up with companies like Boeing.