the problem is more on the money and product/marketing side than on the engineering side. while working on banks that would hold true. a engineer was worth rev

the problem is more on the money and product/marketing side than on the engineering side. while working on banks that would hold true. a engineer was worth revenue per month while the system was up. on silicon valey, the engineer is worth a lot as soon as the product is live, but then that means IPO or something and now he is worthless. Remember that most companies in the valley do not even have the concept of revenue... And when the company does have revenue, then the issue shifts from the money to the product side. The engineer is the guy building the factories. and product can use a better or new factory because they have the talent to build it. but there is nothing they want to build, because, well, they have revenue with the old one, so why bother? now, when you see all that, it is easy to understand why the engineer VPs on the top drive them to exhaustion. because they know in the end the short term in a engineer work life is all that matters to his financial/product peers.