[akomtu]

Many of them are Software Bureocrats - their job is to keep organisational processes running with the goal of avoiding expensive mistakes. They are a lot like corporate lawyers. They don't create new stuff, but they save your organisation from descending into chaos.

Actual engineering still happens at the heart of the organisation, that heart is just shielded by the gigantic army of software bureaucrats.

[cyanydeez]

More of them are akin to social workers enduring the morale never gets to expectant of rewards and the corporate sociopathy never disrupts too much