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Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by whimsicalism on Sunday February 21, 2021 @10:35AM (#26214172)
> They are fearful and paranoid of making a bad hire because they don't know how to assess whether the engineer is destroying the company from the inside.

This is the obvious conclusion. I wonder when investors will wake up to the value of having engineering-savvy management.

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Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by a1369209993 on Sunday February 21, 2021 @03:33PM (#26216888)
> I wonder when investors will wake up to the value of having engineering-savvy management.

To be fair, engineering-savviness and willingness to be management (especially the kind of management that are legible to investors) are substantially anticorrelated.

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