There was a time, upto 10-15 years ago when tech company culture was largely anti-corporate.
Now corporate-y things like playing office politics is order of the day in medium to large tech companies.
My (maybe uninformed) hypothesis is that tech made so much money that it brought in the MBA and HR types who brought their corporate culture with them.
Even the smaller tech companies are now mimicking big tech culture as the standard.
>My (maybe uninformed) hypothesis is that tech made so much money that it brought in the MBA and HR types who brought their corporate culture with them.
This is some strange engineer's fantasy, that every company was ruined by "MBA types". Meanwhile, as evidenced in places in this thread, "software types" don't even understand basic business principles. They like to believe that if they were just left alone they'd churn out brilliant product, as if a large business isn't far more complex than that. Someone needs to count the beans (MBAs) and someone needs to deal with the people (HR).
Now corporate-y things like playing office politics is order of the day in medium to large tech companies.
My (maybe uninformed) hypothesis is that tech made so much money that it brought in the MBA and HR types who brought their corporate culture with them.
Even the smaller tech companies are now mimicking big tech culture as the standard.