Comment by CrossVR
13 days ago
Running companies like this is how you end up with the current state of Boeing. Only valuing engineers who are directly earning you profit and firing the ones who only have an indirect role in your profit centers.
> If your work isn’t clearly connected to company profit, your position is unstable
You know what really makes your position unstable as an engineer? Delaying a product over "safety" concerns, thereby doing work that's clearly connected to preventing company profit. Only young, bright-eyed engineers would be naive enough to bring up safety concerns right?
> Or even worse, engineers who are preventing you from making profit over "safety" concerns.
Ugh, this.
After doing SRE for nearly a decade and being utterly pigeonholed, I've come to believe it's more accurately placed in the "controlled opposition" bucket than anything about either reliability or engineering.
Quality Assurance reporting in. Everybody talks a good game, then when you bring up compliance it's straight to the executive override.
Yeah. Company culture like the one mentioned in this document is toxic and will inevitably cause the company to fail.