ie - people that are incompetent at their role of people managers.
Why is incompetence so discussed for ICs but rarely for management?
Maybe if more managers were competent and less conflict-averse they would do their jobs better and cycle out incompetence and bad intentions faster.
Ah wait, but middle managers specifically choose conflict-averse, easy to control, domesticated people. That's why you find this particular type of personality in management so often.
So the issue is incentives as well and bigger than initially thought.
A corporation is a bunch of people cooperating to achieve a common goal.
There is a very important factor that heavily influences (perhaps even controls?) how people act to achieve that goal, and sometimes even twists or adds goals.
Is that corporation publicly quoted in the stock market or is it private?
Look at how steam behaves, it's private and more ideological VS how many other publicly quoted companies, whose CEO often sacrifices his own corporation's long term survival for the benefit of short-term profiteering and some hedge fund manager's bonus.
Both need profit to survive, but the publicly quoted company is much more extreme.
When people say corporations only look to profit, what they really mean is that publicly quoted corporations will do everything possible to maximise short term profit at any cost. Is there a CEO caring for long term? Either he will be convinced to change or kicked out. It's almost impossible for someone to resist these influences in publicly quoted companies. It's just how Wall Street works and if that doesn't change neither will corporations.
The people running the world of finance and their culture are what causes enshittification and pushing a zero-sum game to extremes.
That short-term individual success is at the expense of the wider long-term success.
If 10 people live in a lake and I fish more than everyone I will be better off that others. But then everyone else will seek the same individual short-term success because my first step in being an asshole was not punished. We will all end up starving in this scenario. A central authority agreed by all to manage this situation fairly is the way out. Rules agreed to in common beforehand and enforced by a neutral party.
If you reach out to them you're risking validating that the data they already have is somewhat accurate, plus they might demand more information from you.
> while one can't control the company's behavior, a person can control their own behavior. As such, it is perfectly reasonable to criticize them when they choose to act without integrity.
That leads to a society where people are punished and corporations are not, simply because they are too big to be criticised.
Much more often than people, large and publicly quoted corporations end up becoming inherently evil.
The total self-serving lies made by individuals will always be a drop in the ocean when compared to the self-serving lies of a single S&P500.
They're both wrong, but the real issue here is to start by criticizing and correcting the corporations, not the people. Once it feels like a drop in a glass of water, we can start thinking of criticizing the people.
If your competitor is lazy and grows to accept more money for less quality that is immoral. The moral thing to do is to compete against that company so that you provide better products and services for lower cost. That is the moral thing. Communism is neither here nor there, it's a completely different thing. Happy now?
> None of these questions seem especially hard, and they're exactly the sort of problem that I face on a daily basis in my work.
Really? Do you invert linked lists all day? When the last time you had to traverse a binary tree? Genuine questions. I'm sure there has to be a mismatch between what we define as "those questions".
> They're also fairly discussion based
They're also performed wildly differently with no standards at all. I've had good coding interviews with the coding as a starting point for a conversation. But I've also had it super strict on rails, interviewer silent and just expecting you to one-shot the optimal path. The latter is particularly great at hiring professional interviewers rather than actual professionals at the job.
Hiring that guy is a badge of honor because admitting otherwise would be to admit that the interview processes have nothing to do with the job, thus the real incompetence here is with the companies and people following that interviewing style.
Instead of correcting themselves, those interviewers chose to dive deeper into delusion.
For me too, anyone that does horribly, bad signal. Anyone who does perfectly, bad signal.
I've found that looking for mediocre and sub-par results will give you professionals that spend their time getting good at the profession instead of getting good at leetcoding.
I have never and will never hire code monkeys. AI already takes care of that.
I have had the exact same experience with the exact same kind of person. We used to be in the same team for years and after we collaborated once, I absolutely hated any work interaction related to his him or his work. Outside of work we got along well, he was fine, socially stunted, but that's OK.
When the layoff time came, everyone had to scramble to move by themselves to a small selection of teams. The second I heard that guy was interviewing for the same team as me, I had gotten an offer at that point, I told the hiring manager, me or him. That's how bad working with those kinds of people can be. He ended up elsewhere and I'm still in that team. I just could not deal with him anymore. Perfect interviewer, but couldn't write production code to save his life... He's still employed by the way, bumbling around from team to team because the consequences of his incompetence take months or years to feel...
There is no such thing as a 100% free market, not in America, not anywhere.
What was passed was a petition for the EU to listen to the needs of a million EU citizens. It is not yet a law, but it might become one. Laws are the rules of the market. A 100% free market is anarchy.
> First of all we are developers only. Calling ourselves engineers is a sociopathic lie. Almost none of us are capable of doing anything that resembles engineering.
What if you did engineering before and just moved to software engineering because that somehow pays more than the noble profession of engineering?
Good points, he seems to be in to something in the health field, but the analysis was incomplete and flawed. Given the importance of the health results, perhaps someone could build on top of that and build an improved study?
Why is incompetence so discussed for ICs but rarely for management?
Maybe if more managers were competent and less conflict-averse they would do their jobs better and cycle out incompetence and bad intentions faster.
Ah wait, but middle managers specifically choose conflict-averse, easy to control, domesticated people. That's why you find this particular type of personality in management so often.
So the issue is incentives as well and bigger than initially thought.