[abiox]

> It depends if you want "yes" men, or people to disagree with you.

having an opinion and outright insubordination are two entirely different things. the former is fine, while the latter is toxic and destructive.

> Remember, they aren't making widgets, they are engineering software; it's a high knowledge, high skill task.

honestly, this mostly applies to areas that have advanced requirements. a lot of programming is not particularly "high knowledge, high skill", from business process stuff to web development.