i'll chime in with a personal experience. I joined a highly technical startup (think C++ and CUDA) with an incredible engineering team. Now hire a bunch of strategy/business/sales/success workers, create two tiers of society, and ensure the engineers get thrown into the back room. Great way to make a startup lose spark.
Here is a specific example: schedule the company holiday party the night before the one major software release of the year so all the engineers are sitting at the party with heavy GPU laptops coding away on build issues after bug fixes.
Here is another specific example: recently hired workers on the business side become Directors and VPs three out of undergrad while engineers waiting for years for promotions are not given any.
Here is a specific example: schedule the company holiday party the night before the one major software release of the year so all the engineers are sitting at the party with heavy GPU laptops coding away on build issues after bug fixes.
Here is another specific example: recently hired workers on the business side become Directors and VPs three out of undergrad while engineers waiting for years for promotions are not given any.