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Re:Debate over 'fake work' in tech industry misses the real ... by icedchai on Monday July 10, 2023 @07:21PM (#36674384)
In the mid-2000's, I worked at a company where the engineering managers were actual engineers that coded. They often did double duty as PMs. You don't see that often today.
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Re:Debate over 'fake work' in tech industry misses the real ... by shusson on Monday July 10, 2023 @07:58PM (#36674754)
Yeah the progression feels like a textbook example of the iron law of bureaucracy [1]

[1]https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html

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