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Not at my last employer. Titles were frequently used as a reason to increase or discount the value of opinions or authority on matters. You didn't get the mora
by vonmoltke 12y ago
Not at my last employer. Titles were frequently used as a reason to increase or discount the value of opinions or authority on matters. You didn't get the moral authority to act like a senior engineer until promoted to such.
The only real exception to this was when the person with the title was The Outsider. Being a defense contractor, we had many long-running programs and people fairly regularly spent a decade or more on a single program. Among other things this led ti cliques of "old-timers" on programs who would be automatically suspicious of high-level people from outside who were brought in to "help".
- spacecowboy_lon 12y agoAnd very common and a lot stronger in some cultures than others. I suspect that some recent SV hiring trends will have incresed this tendancy - this could cause problems as a comapny coudl turn into a civil serivce orgaiastion but with out the flexability that has developed over the centurys in the british civil service Charlie Stoss's descriptions of the laundy are only a slight exageration and he only worked in local govenment :-)
- scott_s 12y agoI am not stating "this is how it is, everywhere." I am stating "this is how the author thinks it is at his company."