Is that a joke or a real thang? I know there are status meetings but is it that some people never work and just collect status?
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It’s a big problem, it’s a tech company and everyone needs to be technical, if you only track stuff you don’t understand you add no value
@beq+1oGgGk6B For every status collector leeching off Q at least 2 to 3 junior engineers are going to be laid off.
Status collectors are going to protect their cliques at ALL cost and sc--w over the junior engineers.
How is this layoff related?
It had become a meme at this stage. Are status collectors a pain in general? Yes! Are they the cause of the company's downfall? No! It is the bumbling id--ts at the top who are solely responsible for this mess. While it might be fun to gang up on status collectors, the people at the top are the ones who are upending our lives
Another comment from earlier thread summarized much better who is needed most. "Staff engineers are like commissioned officers that have to deal with pampered status collectors above them and id--t grunts below them".
Comment from an earlier thread captures definition of status collectors pretty well. They are very much real and Q has way too many of them. Every company needs a few, but no company needs as many as there are in Q. Their numbers is the root cause of toxic culture Q.
Copied from an earlier thread .... which defines them reasonably accurately
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A status collector is usually a senior staff or principal engineer /manager or director. They are generally out of touch with technical work as they spend most of their time collecting status of features / bugs from people who do the work and report it to their higher ups. Their primary goal is in being connected to other peer status collectors or being in a clique that will protect them during difficult times like now.
Most of them are really good at making architectural block diagrams littered with acronyms that junior engineers are not exposed to. They also act as the sole interface to peer teams and higher ups, there by ensuring their presence/importance is known while controlling the growth potential of junior engineers.
OP you are not a qcomer else you wouldn’t ask
No one works at Qualcomm. By definition everyone at Qualcomm is a status collector. Qualcomm employees are living off the the invention of dead people
The status collecting thing is real. Between multiple managers and so-called Product Managers, someone always wants a PowerPoint presentation, at least once per week, to show where things are.
During my time there, I had to put many of the things together for a very rude PM.