It’s surprising this attitude (and stuff like stack ranking) is so prevalent in tech. Tech workers are professionals, not burger flippers. You create all sorts of incentives that are bad for the institution long term, like discouraging cooperation, discouraging people from owing up to mistakes, acknowledging when ideas don’t work, etc.
Positive incentives can get you only so far. For the organisation it might be better to get rid of these people at the cost of low morale, to ensure that the company stays competitive.
The purpose of tech workers is to increase the ROI on compute capital for the 0.1% that own most all stocks.
This group has captured all the technology induced productivity gains since the 70s from nearly all of society as a %, so their system is working extremely well on average (for them).
At big companies everyone is a burger flipper in the end, it seems. But that’s part of the deal when joining these massive orgs — good pay at the expense of being a cog.
