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This only works for so long, then the company hires an MSP which does have top notch engineers and they run it like that for a decade before bringing it back in house. The cycle has always been like this. They did it in 08-11 when a ton of companies laid off their devs and shipped the jobs to code farms in India...then half a decade later when the code was like a house of cards, rehired top talent back in house to fix it all. The cycle will continue, it's just the way CEOs who aren't there long term for the company think. Short term profits, aka kick the can down the road to the next guy.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's a fucking stupid approach, as do ~90% of IC's at these companies.
Someone at Amazon put it nicely when they've said that there's a rise in "belief-driven" leadership in tech right now. Instead of following the data and asking people what they want, we're seeing tech leaders position themselves as visionaries, and making market-changing decisions on gut feeling. It's absolutely a series a short-term decisions, and all they care about is what they think, and how it'll save their skin for the next 3-6 months.
Oh man thank you for that phrase. "belief driven leadership" is exactly what's happening there right now. Spot on. I'm so close to finding somewhere else to work but my immediate leadership thinks the RTO is bullshit as well. However I know they can't hold off forever.
If I hear “magic” One more fucking time in a town hall meeting…
I have never seen an MSP with top-notch engineers. I worked for a fairly nice one and we were pretty average.
I've worked most of my career with msps and yes there are a lot of the lower level guys which are more for triage than fixing anything and they're average, but the higher levels all have top notch engineers usually. Don't get me wrong, there will always be those who squeezed by and made it higher but most who are higher up the food chain have a lot of experience from tons of different environments.