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Don’t attribute to malice that which can be can be attributed to stupidity.

My current employer has fairly recently hired a ton of ex-Google/Microsoft into upper management. They’re universally clueless about our business, spending most of their time trying to shiv one another for power.

>>pinewu+(OP)
We've recently hired a bunch of ex-Googlers (as well as Twitter-ers and other laid off people). They seem to spend most of their time making sure everyone here knows they're ex-${big_name} and how awesome things were there and we should change everything to do it the same way. It's a bit of a put-off.

>>sidlls+Rk1
If one thinks about it, they were minions in a monopoly, and a pretty dysfunctional one at that even if lucrative. What the heck do they know about how to run a competitive business?

>>sidlls+Rk1
Is this not visible to the people with authority to fire them/not hire more such people? Or do they think differently than you?

>>ido+fW1
People are not usually fired for being obnoxious.

>>ido+fW1
I think the attitude is that the industry analysts view “big names” as a structural positive not bothering to think about the actual reality. Also when you hire one of them in a senior position, suddenly you now have a gang of them as new subsidiary VPs.

>>aflag+9a2
It sound like the person we're replying too implied they were also not very effective at their jobs.

>>ido+6J6
I'd be surprised if he really spent most of his time repeating that he worked at Google. That's certainly hyperbole.