I will never understand why so many engineers are so viscerally against “top down” direction/strategy? How are you supposed to evaluate & make the right bottoms-up decisions if the end goal of the work isn’t defined & agreed upon by the people at the top who control funding & staffing?
srsly 👏 refusal to align w authority as a brand is so v cringe 😬🙅♀️
It’s cus engineers were told for a couple of decades now they know best.
… which is the same root cause of “engineers’ time is too important to go to meetings”
Yaaasss. We need to catch up. Ans I wanna hear that staff plus talk.
They think they’re important and smarter, held back by incompetent idiots. Tech narcissists abound.
my identity is the idiot that holds back smart people
Oh absolutely there are, but I also have observed this thinking in people who I generally respect, which is the baffling part!