I think it is inevitable that organizational "culture" changes. The tricky part is figuring out exactly what parts need change and what parts don’t.

For example JPL used to have beauty pageants ("Miss Guided Missile"). More recently, management appears to be trying to adopt policies and procedures from some venture funded commercial space companies. It is not clear how helpful these efforts will be given that these organizations are in fundamentally different businesses.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/slice-of-history-70th-annive...

Run off the mill MBAs are not allowed anywhere near to stuff as important as Voyager.

All the web apps, that run of the mill devs are implementing are nowhere near as important as voyager.

I think we are fine ;)

I guarantee you that a run of the mill MBA program will say something about institutional knowledge being important. You’re needlessly and unjustifiably finding an excuse to dunk on something that you know people here dislike, despite it having very little to do with the actual topic. Which…fine. But you’re also so keen to do it that you aren’t even correct. Please stop projecting every gripe you have with your boss onto this mythical “evil MBA”.

It also helps that JPL is a public good and not a wealth-extraction machine

but if someone is paid $0 it must mean they are worthless, surely the excel file doesnt lie