That is revolting. I hear a lot of nightmare stories like this. Unfortunately, I think as engineers, we are forever doomed to be treated like peasants, unless y

That is revolting. I hear a lot of nightmare stories like this. Unfortunately, I think as engineers, we are forever doomed to be treated like peasants, unless you know how to play politics, kiss ass, and move up into a manager position. The concept of manager seems so old fashioned and backwards especially when we are now dealing with a manufacturing industry that produces nothing physical, where the concept of a product is actually just a vote of minds of all the stakeholders, engineers, customers. Having traditional managerial that were suitable for overseeing factories and suppress workers from rioting and maximizing labor output in an information based product is nothing short of censorship. My idea of a dream team of software engineers is one where we have as little technical and business censorship as possible. It would be sort of like how day trading desks operate but we end up building one product that reflects the demands of the customers, the future market. Instead of having a manager telling you what to do or what to build, you act on information from a customer directly. This might be a tougher hybrid to find but I reckon we'll see more and more entreprengineers as traditional manufacturing corporate structures lose their appeal. Wishful thinking but I hope some people share the same ideas and values.