Could just aswell have called it on “On being morally righteous”. I worked with several PEs in my last job. Two that stand out to me right now to make my point...
PE 1: Complete fraud. He was also a people manager in addition to his endowed “expertise”. He oversaw an Outlook mailbox, and had a chokehold on any communication with the team. Any person emailing anyone in the team directly would be reprimanded that they should contact him instead. His primary job purpose was to read email, forward it, get reaponses, and then reply as himself. Doing this for about 20+ years makes you look like a 50x engineer. Especially when the people you forward to are other PEs and generally smart people.
PE 2: Was actual expert, worked for PE 1. This guy was humble, generally helped all the junior guys in the right direction, asked you how your day was, wishied you happy 3/14 (pi) day, and had rolled plenty of his own software to have cred. He made contributions that impacted 100s of millions if not billions of people worldwide.
PE 2 was sacked. PE 1 was promoted to Sr PE. Sr PE has serious employee retention issues, and is constantly on the prowl to sucker the next PhD grad into his honey trap. He has snaked his way into academic conferences with other people’s work. But who cares... I’m not about to get into a discussion about being morally righteous...
PE 1: Complete fraud. He was also a people manager in addition to his endowed “expertise”. He oversaw an Outlook mailbox, and had a chokehold on any communication with the team. Any person emailing anyone in the team directly would be reprimanded that they should contact him instead. His primary job purpose was to read email, forward it, get reaponses, and then reply as himself. Doing this for about 20+ years makes you look like a 50x engineer. Especially when the people you forward to are other PEs and generally smart people.
PE 2: Was actual expert, worked for PE 1. This guy was humble, generally helped all the junior guys in the right direction, asked you how your day was, wishied you happy 3/14 (pi) day, and had rolled plenty of his own software to have cred. He made contributions that impacted 100s of millions if not billions of people worldwide.
PE 2 was sacked. PE 1 was promoted to Sr PE. Sr PE has serious employee retention issues, and is constantly on the prowl to sucker the next PhD grad into his honey trap. He has snaked his way into academic conferences with other people’s work. But who cares... I’m not about to get into a discussion about being morally righteous...
Context: large blue semiconductor shithole.