LOTS of people are bad at their job.
I disagree. Good articles should make specific propositions about specific exemplars. The alternative is to make generalities that are hard to falsify.
Capturing the subtleties in such a black/white call-out usually is lost though to the reader/listener. It also doesn't lend to this to do this so publically, for the entire internet.
But this is a Director at Google. She has the power to command change and her actions affect 100s of people directly inside Google and likely many thousands using the products of teams under her. They likely draw multi million dollar total comp.
I very much welcome them to be publicly called out on their BS.
He thinks she is bad at her job and it’s clear she’s not. She know precisely how to move people around to take blame for failures while staying clean and clear to brag about the wins. To the clueless she might look dumb but she’s not at all. She knows how to secure her millions in comp per year and retire early. She’s very smart.
To be fair he seems to be waking up to the fact the sociopaths are in it for themselves, 18 years later.
'At her job' - her job is improving the department.
> She knows how to secure her millions in comp per year and retire early. She’s very smart.
If I had the background, connections and privileges of these several MBA types, I could also do that. But I couldnt perhaps be a great engineer. Therefore I wouldn't share your appreciation of sociopathy, and I believe many people are of similar opinion.