Blaming workers is always an excuse by poor management.
What sort of human looks at a group of people and goes "it would be really nice if we made people miserable."
Absolutely disgusting.
I just mean the normal, almost inevitable kind of pressure that comes from the business situation. Management has to somehow figure out strategies to handle the pressure and it has to communicate these strategies and the reasoning for them to the engineers in a constructive way.
Generally, this is the pressure to be competitive and make money. It does the developers no good if they spend so much time writing great code that the company goes out of business.
Hand those people an LLM and they don’t suddenly become competent, but they do start slinging more code.
These companies pay management more than workers for a reason, if you can't even admit that they are to blame then what are you trying to do here? Just attack workers for what reason exactly? Being anti-worker is a great tell to never trust a person.
Who even is supposed to be training us? We're supposed to be the experts. Unless you mean mentorship, which is also generally already a thing at any company that has more than a handful of engineers.
No one is training us because there are no regulations in our industry. Sorry but I still reject the premise of the other poster.
Also yes, in other industries professionals do complain when they aren't given their mandated time to learn while working on the job.
They're generally not going to teach you how to program or what the latest technologies are or what the best ways to do things are because that's literally what they're paying you for. But IME they definitely give you plenty of time and autonomy to be learning things at work.
Training doesn’t solve every problem, the worst programmer I ever worked with that a PHD in computer science. Everything he made was horribly slow, wildlife overly complicated, and buggy. Worse he wouldn’t listen to anyone correcting his issues. He’d store numbers in the database as strings to be database agnostic etc.
You do not like bad workers, management doesn't care. They pay bad workers the same as you, bad workers can get promotions the same as you, you will also get laid off with the bad workers as well; or maybe even worse, the bad workers get promoted into management themselves. How do you want things to change in such an environment?
You have no authority to do anything meaningful as a single worker, what if you were given a voice to actually make these claims and have other workers decide what to do based on your voice?
Workplace democracy seems like an interesting concept to explore if you truly want to create better environments with beneficial outcomes to all, not just the few:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_democracy
Or are you just trying to bash your co-workers so you become the next pick me?
No stock owners are ultimately in control of public companies. That doesn’t fit any of the models you just described.
Similarly companies are not independent of government control which inherently separates them from management systems associated with governments. A CEO is limited by the law in ways that a dictator isn’t.
Only poor leaders ignore their workers, which is what you seemed to have actually experience.