2y ago

The reality of Big Tech's 'fake work' problem - Inside the perverse system of 'lazy management' that's destroying the tech industry

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Inside the perverse system of 'lazy management' that's destroying the tech industry

Tech executives and investors have claimed that loafing employees are dragging down companies. But experts say the real problem is "lazy management."

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I'd say it's lazy and incompetent management, i.e the #techbros and people that have failed upwards.
Louis Rossman just made a video about exactly this!
Companies are basically paying staff to do nothing and not work for a competitor
- So basically Hooli from Silicon Valley?
- Seems interesting but that link didn’t take me to a video
  
  here’s the original video by Louis Rossmann: https://youtu.be/waLMfXLBBlQ
  
  Worked for me
To the guys at the top, it’s always the bottom folks who are lazy. To the guys on the bottom, it’s always the top folks who are lazy.
- The guys on the bottom do all of the work, even if there are a few people slacking off.
  
  I'm an engineering manager, started from the bottom now I'm here. Really, went junior dev / qa - dev - senior - staff then software architect then technical manager. Management is as hard as coding, but in a different way. Just because someone is not smashing their mechanical keyboards 8 hours per day doesn't mean they're lazy.
  
  The guys on the bottom do all of the work, even if there are a few people slacking off.
  No, the guys on the bottom do much of the work. The guys on the top also do quite a bit of mission critical work, but in an entirely different venue.
  Some on the bottom will slack off, just like some on the top will slack off.
The funny thing is that a bunch of engineers will say “see it’s all lazy management”, and then when they get non-“lazy”-management, they’ll realize how much harder the engineers will have to work too.
- If management weren't lazy they would make work much much smoother so engineers can actually solve problems they are excited about instead of workaround shitty management policies and decisions.

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