Re:The Staff Engineer's Path – Book Review
by coliveira on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @02:24PM
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There is a simple reason why megacorps don't spin off projects: they would need someone with vision to search for these projects and with high authority to proceed on the spin off. They don't have this kind of people, for the obvious reason that it is not their main concern. Executives in any megacorp are 100% busy making the core business a success, and investing time in small projects that may come to nothing is just a distraction. This may just explain why big corporations are just a waste of time and resources, in the long term.
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Re:The Staff Engineer's Path – Book Review
by diceduckmonk on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @06:51PM
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> They don't have this kind of people
Because the people with vision and conviction would be running their own startups
Re:The Staff Engineer's Path – Book Review
by jameshart on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @07:06PM
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Not just that they don't have those people. They also don't have the money. Because most companies are operating with someone else's money. It belongs to the shareholders or the investors or the bank. And they have been entrusted with that money in order to conduct a very particular business venture.
If they go off using that money to spin up side-hustles selling engineering tools, they're taking risks with someone else's money to do something they weren't told to do.