Posted on 05/07/2024 10:44:29 PM PDT by libh8er
An investor at famed Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz is the latest VC to get involved in the debate around "fake work" in the tech industry.
In an interview published Monday with Emily Sundberg for her Substack newsletter "Feed Me," Andreessen Horowitz general partner David Ulevitch called Google "an amazing example" of a corporation employing people in "BS jobs."
"As we (society / our economy) prioritize conglomerates and megacorps, irrelevant jobs proliferate," he said. "Anyone who works in a 10,000+ person or larger white-collar job company knows that a bunch of the people can probably be let go tomorrow and the company wouldn't really feel the difference, maybe it'd even improve with less people inserting themselves into things."
“The growing professional managerial class in America, and more importantly, the societal perception that those jobs are 'really important,' is a weakness, not a strength," he added. "I should note, I have been a part of this class in my career, and it's great — people really treated me like I was very impressive and important when I was an SVP at Cisco, and so naturally I thought I was, too. This dynamic is endemic across corporations and is lame."
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Hear, hear. I’m tired of serving 1st generation citizens who have no allegiance to the traditions of the country in which they’re employed nor to the that which built the industry they currently monopolize.
I agree 100% and have been saying that for years.
My brief story again.
I did contract engineering work for a major aircraft manufacturer. There was an entire division invented to employ unqualified diversity hires to keep their good graces with the government and promotional material. Specifically black American people since there was plenty of “diversity” with people from all over the world (Japanese, Korean, Indian,). They did no work at all. I imagine it is the same with google and most tech companies.
It just never ends.
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