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Starting at the bottom and working your way up to the top definitely produces a different quality of leader. I used to work in research labs where everyone had
by eat_the_rich 2y ago
Starting at the bottom and working your way up to the top definitely produces a different quality of leader. I used to work in research labs where everyone had to do a bit of everything. I'm currently in a silicon valley startup where leadership is quite proud and will enthusiastically tell anyone who will listen that they were born rich, their parents got them into Stanford, and they've only ever been c-suite. And they're incompetent as hell and I'm job hunting.
- sitkack 2y agoI have had the same experience working in Big Tech. Lots of people who have only had an internship (in their field) and no real life experience doing any sort of hard work. Of the friends that I gravitated towards in those big companies, only the folks that actually had real jobs, did we form any sort of long term connection. Not only do they have a tendency to incompetent, they can very unsympathetic and dismissive towards people viewed as below them.