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Re:Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group... by sharken on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @01:31AM (#23972580)
Good insight, I feel like engineers/developers would benefit from basic business classes, just to understand the thinking that can lead to the downfall of great engineering companies and hopefully how to avoid it.

Having recently seen this first hand, i.e. great developers being shuffled around and questionable business decisions carried out without a strong engineering buy in, it sucks.

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Re:Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group... by chii on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @03:19AM (#23973188)
> the downfall of great engineering companies and hopefully how to avoid it.

why is this the responsibility of the engineer (presumably, with no real equity in the company)?

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Re:Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group... by sfgweilr4f on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @04:20AM (#23973569)
The ability to choose the ship you set sail on and to know when it starts sinking.
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Re:Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group... by llampx on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @03:45AM (#23973357)
My understanding on how to avoid it would be, if you see decisions from management that point in that direction, run. Or raise concern.
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