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His job is literally CEO, not Engineer, and he doesn't practice engineering for his day job. There are more cases of him shitposting on twitter than there are a
by ImPostingOnHN 3y ago
His job is literally CEO, not Engineer, and he doesn't practice engineering for his day job. There are more cases of him shitposting on twitter than there are attestations of his engineering chops from fans in that article.
This isn't an indictment on him, or his ability to learn: if you do anything only a few times a week or a few times a month, instead of 8 hours per day, you likely won't learn that thing very quickly.
Especially if, when you do it, it resembles more of a pointy-haired boss swooping in on a meeting, telling someone to change something when you have no idea what the implications or history are, and then going back to twitter shitposting.
- indoordin0saur 3y agoYour job is what you do, not what your title is. He definitely makes engineering decisions, whether you like those engineering decisions or not.
- FireBeyond 3y ago> He definitely makes engineering decisions, whether you like those engineering decisions or not. That's the crux of one of the big complaints at Boeing at the moment. Accountants / beancounters making engineering decisions. Engineering presents options 1 and 2, with cost and effort breakdowns. Accountant executives select option 1. That doesn't make them engineers, because they've made an engineering decision.
- ImPostingOnHN 3y agoI'm trying to imagine the CEOs I've worked under, randomly swooping into an Engineering meeting once or twice a month, "making a decision" that doesn't respect the chain of command, with no knowledge of the subject matter or history, and never checking back or caring about the results. Then calling themselves an "engineer" because "they make engineering decisions". That would be really disempowering. Engineers "make engineering decisions" for their primary day job, not just on the occasional weird drug-fueled power-trip through the engineering department in between shitposting on twitter and being interviewed on the Joe Rogan podcast, and their job depends on the decisions being good, too.
- dzhiurgis 3y agoNever worked in small flat org eh?
- avgDev 3y ago"At this point, I think I know more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on earth." -Elon Musk I don't know anyone who makes statements this dumb and I have been developing software for manufacturers for a decade.