- Stop working for them, and start working for companies that favor engineering expertise
- As a consumer, advertise the good companies and call bullshit on the bad ones
- Raise awareness about these practices among your elected political representatives and their constituencies
If all of their skilled engineers leave, the bad company cannot run only on the basis of MBAs juggling balance sheets. Unfortunately most of my fellow engineers are far more likely to sit around blaming “the MBAs” over drinks than take any of the above actions.
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- Name the companies in question
- Stop working for them, and start working for companies that favor engineering expertise
- As a consumer, advertise the good companies and call bullshit on the bad ones
- Raise awareness about these practices among your elected political representatives and their constituencies
If all of their skilled engineers leave, the bad company cannot run only on the basis of MBAs juggling balance sheets. Unfortunately most of my fellow engineers are far more likely to sit around blaming “the MBAs” over drinks than take any of the above actions.