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Yep, and I am seeing it moreso in traditional engineering where the white collar criminals, er,management accountants (PWC, McKinsey, Boston etc) have somehow managed to insert themselves and convinced the larger companies that "those engineers, they are great guys, but they don't understand your business like we do, so why don't you let us tell them what to do and we will make sure they don't screw you over or do shit you don't need".

So thereby inserting themselves at great cost, muddying the waters and actually ensuring that the engineer is so far removed from the actual need that they couldn't engineer a value solution unless they lucked in by chance - it becomes all abot cost and nothing about value and while some of those guys are smart people, very, very few of them understand engineering in the particular detail needed to really specify and return the best result.

I guess that is why you see a lot of them advertising for engineers to join them these days, it seems like they want to become the engineers as part of the management group.