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They used to have a reputation for employing smart people... Dumbass middle managers took over a while back and started making the stupidest decisions.
That's what happens when MBAs start to weasel their way into any business.
Heard someone assert that MBA's have ruined the world. Seemed a hyperbolic statement at the time. Though casting my eyes around an ever more enpoopified landscape, it's tough to disagree.
Having taken some "Business for IT" courses.... It's buzzwords all the way down. The buzzwords are defined with buzzwords that are defined with buzzwords that...
MBA are stupid people who think they're intelligent. I have my M.S. in CS earned summa cum laude and some of these business idiots think their grad degree was even remotely as difficult as mine.
Same thing that happened at Boeing.