How are we letting non-technical managers make technical decisions?
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If you check closely enough, you'll note that those managers have both a brown nose and a very brown tongue.
Simple: because it's more important that the decision be political than technical.
One who controls the money takes the decision. If managers allow others to take decision, they run the risk of being overthrown from their little Kingdom in Cisco by a competitor.
Happens all the time - people hate any constructive feedback
If anyone points out that the emperor has no clothes, then this person becomes the target of the next LR.
Always happens in my BU. The engineering managers who got their positions thru personal ties with the VP (party held in the backyard on weekends) have no technical skills but constantly make technical decisions (blindly). If anyone points out that the emperor has no clothes, then this person becomes the target of the next LR.
This never happens
Coin flip or better with throwing a dice. It really doesn't matter. Cisco is not a technical company but rather a sales company. Chuck and Johnny will find ways to get whatever junks produced by the engineering sold.