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by mindentropy 1086 days ago
>Somewhere along the ZIRP-age this all changed. We needed to become a Real Company (TM) now. We needed to have runbooks. We needed to have Boring Technology. We were poised for huge growth after all (aka our stock value shot through the roof.) The new managers we brought in needed to build out new teams to grow fast, fast, fast.

I agree. We should have had a cleansing cycle during the financial meltdown and cleared off all the madness. Instead money was printed and the party had restarted with even more stupidity.