The tech CEOs see sw engs as entitled, mediocre performers.. they're kinda right

"Very few teams are like Google in its heyday. Firing on all cylinders. Innovating. Meaningfully moving the bottom line with tech is actually rare"

Very few companies have products or a need for developers that require innovation. 1% do, the rest are CRUD apps and other applications that support the business.

Reaction I: True enough. What other field has had it as good as upper-end sw engs in the past decade or two, yet (~95% of the time) delivered meh-at-best results?

Reaction II: So...could you tell me more about those tech CEOs, and all the levels of management in between them and the actual sw engs? Because I'm thinking that they are the Architects / Engineers / Masons behind all the billion-dollar pyramids of sh*t. And downsizing/demoting/replacing all the "entitled, mediocre" laborers who haul the big stone blocks up the construction ramps every day is no different from rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

There's some truth here, but this is a one-sided view. Let's turn the tables on this:

Engineers see CEOs as entitled, mediocre performers.

Furthermore, the "solution" these mediocre CEOs are espousing seems to simply be a version "the beatings will continue until morale improves."

mediocre company is the result of mediocre ceo hiring mediocre team, commonly without much if any accountability due to artificially abundant capital elevating zombie firms. any heroic attempts at excellence are neutered by inability of mgmt to comprehend or measure excellence resulting in KPI culture based on whatever vanity metrics are near at hand. C players remain, B players eventually leave, A players either never joined or the spirit of excellence is beaten out of them and they start salarymaxxing