Five years in, and I’ve yet to meet a technical leader who actually knows the tech. Most hide behind buzzwords and slides, playing politics instead of doing real work or learning anything new. How can people like that lead development—and how has senior management not figured this out?
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@OP You people don’t do any engineering. I learned this the hard way when my former employer hired some of you into the team I was on.
I’ll be happy to provide examples. TIA for the downvotes.
I am a real engineer. They have me tech ladder tracked. Already am high CL. I indicated I should be moved into management track because I cannot compete year over year against non tech managers with entire teams of contributions. It’s utterly ridiculous. I am supposed to outcompete teams of 12-14 individuals? Or teams of teams?
We were all fired or saw that real engineers are not valued or rewarded. Notice that no one wants to be on the non existent technical ladder? Why is that? Could it be because it is the quickest way to be PIPed. Management track is the only way to be valued around here.
Wokeness has ki-led ExxonMobil
Engineers at exxon are nothing more than glorified project managers or stupivisors. They know nothing and rely on the knowledge of subordinates. They order supplies from an approved vendor list. One employee who was put in charge asked me what an npt and ansi flange was. I was shocked and asked what her degree was in she replied accounting.
What do you mean? Like engineering PowerPoint slides?
Anyone with options bailed on this trainwreck long ago.
Shut up nerd