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From: Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
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Subject: Re: The Men Who Killed Google
Date: 24 Apr 2024 16:47:36 -0300
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John McCue <jmccue@neutron.jmcunx.com> writes:

> Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
> 
>> https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
>> 
>> Prabhakar Rabhavan does not emerge from this story looking good.
> 
> A very interesting article and worth a read. [snip]
>
> Some quotes:
> 
>> [snip]
> 
>> "management" is  synonymous with "staying as far away
>> from actual work as possible"...
> 
> And that is my experience I have had with working in tech for
> decades.  No matter the tech company, Ivy League MBAs or people
> like them, eventually take over and drive the company into
> the ground.  But they make Wall Street very happy, thus
> themselves and upper management with increased bonuses.

A possibly interesting relevant anecdote:

Over the late 80s and early 90s, I worked, very casually and
intermittently, with a  humanities prof at  MIT who ran a special
program for a selected group of 30 or 40 of each year's frosh.

He once remarked, with some surprise, that many of those 1st year
students in the program had told him that they were only at MIT and
only in a STEM major because they'd learned they were very good at the
technical stuff and saw that innate ability as an entry to corporate
success.  But the had no desire or intent to pursue science/tech as a
career.  Once having obtained a career foothold, they wanted to segue
to management at the earliest opportunity.

> The only difference between the Companies is how long it will
> take and maybe, if someone at the top realizes what is happening,
> make changes instead of watching their bank account grow.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada