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MattGaiser · 2022-01-17 09:06:55

Engineers have very little say in what to build.

jschveibinz | karma 1579 | avg karma 1.36 · | 2022-09-15 10:42:19

The engineers are definitely not in charge.

jacquesm | karma 227883 | avg karma 3.76 · | 2023-11-02 21:02:43

Engineers don't set policy.

sydthrowaway | karma 748 | avg karma 1.01 · | 2022-05-01 12:34:41

Are you sure? Engineers have no control over the isolated designers

humanrebar | karma 12057 | avg karma 2.44 · | 2018-02-26 17:20:18+00:00

Engineers aren't in the room when they decide who is doing the most critical work.

nyolfen | karma 5410 | avg karma 2.9 · | 2015-02-02 22:52:54

engineers don't set policy

techiedudeblog | karma 221 | avg karma 44.2 · | 2013-08-06 21:56:49+00:00

Engineers were not encouraged to think independently.

chromatin | karma 1277 | avg karma 2.98 · | 2021-03-29 18:11:04

I feel bad for the engineers there, who clearly are not in charge.

yeetman21 | karma 89 | avg karma 0.58 · | 2020-10-12 22:12:30+00:00

Engineers can only fix so much, they can not really do permitting and regulation

redmen | karma 148 | avg karma 1.12 · | 2022-06-20 19:57:43

Yes they have engineers but they're all nearsighted, uncreative and high hubris engineers with little to no empathy.

seattle_spring | karma 5707 | avg karma 2.52 · | 2022-05-14 23:51:16

None of this is in the control of the average engineering manager. Seriously, 0%.

gnu8 | karma 2551 | avg karma 3.08 · | 2020-05-19 12:15:12+00:00

Evidently, only they are allowed to do engineering. The rest of us are expected to shut up and buy the products.

killingtime74 | karma 1724 | avg karma 1.7 · | 2021-02-05 22:51:16+00:00

Only thing they are engineering is money from taxpayers

digitalsushi | karma 4573 | avg karma 5.69 · | 2020-12-11 14:22:06+00:00

Two engineers who are not aligned with each other's goals will easily do the work of zero people.

Cofike | karma 200 | avg karma 2.63 · | 2018-07-27 15:41:28+00:00

I’m sure it’s the engineers deciding to do that and not management and leadership.

0xBA5ED | karma 380 | avg karma 1.78 · | 2018-11-27 05:58:16+00:00

Exactly this. I have to wonder if the engineers were even asked for their opinion.

SSLy | karma 2051 | avg karma 1.78 · | 2020-12-10 16:39:47+00:00

No Engineer, no matter how smart, can sway a corporation directed by a political culture that has non-feature goals.

closeparen | karma 19960 | avg karma 2.77 · | 2018-11-20 20:38:33

It’s pretty transparent at my company that no one in the engineering hierarchy has any authority over the physical plant, not even the CTO.

otterley | karma 9624 | avg karma 2.68 · | 2021-07-13 17:19:20

In this story: engineers can't come to a conclusion because they are trying to solve a political problem instead of an engineering problem.

drb91 | karma 2555 | avg karma 1.82 · | 2018-10-14 21:26:47

This seems more of an issue with where the company invests resources than to the engineer themselves.