Unless I'm mistaken you now work where I did a decade ago. When I stormed out in a huff, there were many reasons, but a major one was the overwhelming concentration on what would sell, not on what was technically excellent.
My feeling at the time was that this would lead to the product going from being world-class in performance terms to being the dirt-cheap generic that goes everywhere… and then it fading away when better things came free with Corn Flakes. To a certain extent I feel vindicated.
I was young and naïve and idealistic back then; nowadays I'm at least slightly willing to accept requirements from Marketing. I wonder whether where you work is any more willing to accept innovative ideas from Engineering.
Back in the day, I missed some marketing presentations and I did suffer noticeable opprobium as a result. I deeply envied the couple of technies who'd been there from the beginning and basically had tenure, who could therefore turn up and heckle. (-8
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My feeling at the time was that this would lead to the product going from being world-class in performance terms to being the dirt-cheap generic that goes everywhere… and then it fading away when better things came free with Corn Flakes. To a certain extent I feel vindicated.
I was young and naïve and idealistic back then; nowadays I'm at least slightly willing to accept requirements from Marketing. I wonder whether where you work is any more willing to accept innovative ideas from Engineering.
Back in the day, I missed some marketing presentations and I did suffer noticeable opprobium as a result. I deeply envied the couple of technies who'd been there from the beginning and basically had tenure, who could therefore turn up and heckle. (-8