That's not a good view out the window

[Trub Lou]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/plane-experie...ely-at-dia

Holy crap. I'm not sure if it would be worse seeing that your engine just exploded, or having the engine sheath land at your front door.

[bdutton]

That's a story that you'd love to live to tell.

[Vagus]

No fear

[Mexas Joe]

If I have a heart attack, I want the Doc in the Cath Lab to be the absolute best of the best. Not some person that got into medical school over lowered relaxed standards. 

Same thing goes for risking my family on an airplane. I could give 3 fecks the color of their skin, just hire the best person for the job. I give zero fecks if the entire Gdamn engineering staff is say Asian. 

Stop with the quota hires for the love of God. 

[Trub Lou]

It's definitely a disturbing trend. My current employer, for example, used to have a simple mission statement - make the best radios that money can buy. Then, a few decades later, the mission was less product related, but maybe still viable: "hire talented and motivated people." Another 20 years later, and now they've forgotten about what they're actually making entirely, and are focused on the diversity and inclusion to the marked exclusion of prioritizing excellence. To the point, we have the same parent company as the folks who made that exploding engine. So sad as it is, I don't think you're too far off on that one.

[Vagus]

Making new and novel tech is less cost effective than running a successful daycare and selling the shit we already got. SHOULDERS OF GENIUSES!

[Trub Lou]

I feel like if we stuck with the same working tech, in many cases, at least things would be safe. But companies want to build excitement by building something new, which, if not managed properly, means throwing out everything that's been learned through years of experience and jumping into some half baked idea that somebody read in a conference paper.

[Trub Lou]

That approach can produce some great stuff when your priority is to hire the right team to bring the technology into production. But not so much when hiring quotas are favored over skill or insight.

[TxBrewer]

I am so happy to work for a company whose motto is make the best product in our industry period and when it comes to hiring get the most qualified person for the position.

[Vagus]

I feel like if we stuck with the same working tech, in many cases, at least things would be safe.  But companies want to build excitement by building something new, which, if not managed properly, means throwing out everything that's been learned through years of experience and jumping into some half baked idea that somebody read in a conference paper.

See? I'm so out of touch i can't even hypothetically mess up a company to new world standards. My optimism bled through!

I operate at the R&D level for a lot of products and see the most appalling approaches to development. Always figured it was confined to the startup and VC crowd, that maybe it was different in established orgs.