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I worked at IBM.
The people that run that place are the biggest corporate brain-rot dumbasses in the world. The only way to climb into their ranks is to be enough of a waste of oxygen that you aren’t threatening.
I was doing a chemistry project. One aspiring corporate idiot couldn’t believe why my group didn’t want to “incorporate blockchain” into our project. He’s a VP now.
If they ever do anything right, it’s only because they’ve run out of dumb shit things to do first. I assume those poor young people they’ll be hiring will be laid off at the first whiff of the next corporate fad.
I had IBM as a client. A very high level executive was over the moon when we showed a sql query, a basic select-agg-groupby thing. He loved our "natural language data extraction technology". The meeting wasnt about that, he just asumed we had invented sql queries.
His staff was furious but couldnt correct him live in front of a large audience.
We signed a multi million contract based on this persons lack of understanding, we didnt even have to lie, he just fooled himself.
@Railcar8095 Showing people who stopped at "mildly complex MS Excel formulas" something done with SQL always leads to that kind of thing...