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More like: "We ended up hiring the guy most competent at MS Word at the expense of everything else, because out of the five requirements it was the only one the managers doing the interview knew anything about".

"Johnson! We're promoting you to head technical flight operations. We can't believe the level of your MS Word skills!"

"Senator, we have no idea why the F-22 inexplicably crashed. That software was designed by the best people we could find!".

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The guy that designed the flight control surfaces of the F-22 did so using an elaborate Excel spreadsheet powered by 4,000 lines of uncommented VBA filled with aerodynamics equations, and he retired 3 years ago.

That is so much more likely than you know...

This happens.

I've seen non-professional programmers write the most amazing things in VBA.

Excel is a great proof-of-concept tool where non-programmers can prove their point.

Unfortunately proof-of-concept tools often end up being the end result because .... it works good enough.

They're also concerned about your PowerPoint skills

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywq5zy/the-pentagon-has-t...

"I see you're trying to shoot down an Irani F-14. Would you like help with that?" [Yes] [No] [Cancel]

Such a beautiful warbird, and such a shame they were all cut to pieces just to cut Iran off from black market parts.

Tomcat. Still remember the detail description of it in 1960s read digest and then top gun. But it is very hard to fly. A lot of Taiwanese pilot die.

It's funny because it's true. It's also sad because it's true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle

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