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What an utter dick.

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[โ€“] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

No, more like the data crunching algorithms that ingest and evaluate the resumes will fine tune down to determining some kind of pattern or set of patterns, which describes what skill sets Epic apparently no longer needs.

Then, that data will be sold to some business intelligence / market strategy development consultant, who will then adjust their advice that they give to other tech clients.

Sweeney also fully knows this is what will happen.

Because he has similar consultants or perhaps an inhouse team, going over the same kind of data, that told him to let all these people go.

None of these C suite types actually do any advanced, in depth, strategic planning.

They have the BI guys write those up for them, like how the military has a set of potential war plans to be followed or activated when some set of cinditions are triggered, or a General decides its time to do it, or w/e.

The C suite folk, they're literally just a big social club, all they do is collude with or against other C suites.

Like... that's how this actually works.

It would be immensely easier and generate huge savings for big firms to automate their C suites, not the actual specialists or team leads with deep systemic and specific knowledge.

They're the most expensive employees, by far, and they are the most likely to act irrationally, with outsized negative impacts on the whole business.

... But thats not the point.

The point... is to pamper the C suite people's egos and wallets.

Yep.

That is the actual ultimate end goal.

Its a rigid class system, with an incompetent and haughty nobility... that just kind of pretends to not be that.

Techno-feudalism.

[โ€“] omarfw@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

They spent decades putting an end to meritocracy so they could lord over us with unearned positions of power.