Comment by ethbr1
7 months ago
Imho, the problem is scale.
At certain company sizes, the direct output of entire divisions ceases to be visible to leadership.
What they receive instead are reports that filter up through management.
Consequently, when they promote people, they're doing so on the basis of what they've seen.
Invariably, this selects for shitty business types who can spend the majority of their time ensuring their name is first on successful initiatives and scrubbed off failed ones.
You know what it would take for a technologist to match that?
200% time: 100% to get the job done + 100% to match corporate politicking
> At certain company sizes, the direct output of entire divisions ceases to be visible to leadership. > What they receive instead are reports that filter up through management.
Yeah but it doesn't have to be this way. I put in these details that are summarized in 1 or 2 easy to read bullet points, but asked to remove them because 'leaders are thinking about things on a strategic level'.
And don't get me started on promotion. If I find/do something that improves the teams performance by 10x, "that is just doing my job, please don't bring up stuff like that to management." "you need to have impact across teams". So every team is trying to make every other team take on their 'product' and no one wants to take on other teams product because even if it improves their quality / productivity, they don't get anything for it.