[lliamander]

> That turns the incentive away from creating shareholder value and towards hazing and navel gazing.

It's navel gazing until it turns into the next big money maker.

> Being good at inverting binary trees won't make you a good manager but when the manager role carries money and prestige then it's the hammer you use to reward the shape rotators.

Nitpick, but I was focusing on the non-manager track.