by pcslim » Mon Sep 09, 2019 6:12 am
drdesert: HR people might as well be robots. They are so programmed by the companies that they work for that they hardly seem human most of the time. They spout platitudes and follow directions and that's about it. As for their general intelligence, they are usually slightly smarter than the workers in most companies. Of course, that's not going to be the case in a tech company. BTW you hit the bull's eye in your appraisal of why companies push collaboration and group work. Otherwise the smart people form ad hoc groups as needed and only work with the other smart people. As a group they get way too much power this way. If they all quit at once, it's a disaster. By burdening smart people with less intelligent partners the smart people become isolated from one another and as a group and individually have much less power. Productivity is greatly reduced, but security is increased and big tech companies care more about security than innovation once they reach a certain critical mass.