[ninacomputer]

The scary thing is how many IBM "experts" from the quantum computing teams fled to quantum startups. I interviewed with some after interning at a FAANG, and as a female in tech with family members who have run tech companies, I like to think my BS radar is pretty good.

It went off constantly with a certain "type" of "startup executive", and I noticed they were all former IBM or Intel. I'm not a negative person but found them all to be visibly political, all sounded like that didn't actually do anything really real, and talked a big game that the company outputs didn't seem to match.

I guess they are costing the quantum startups (aka VCs) a lot of money for very little actual work. This is just my observation and just my experience but I'm keeping tabs because it will be interesting to see how many quantum startups fail over the next few years, and which were run by IBM execs. I have my hypotheses ready.

[thedougd]

I’ve seen these types, and their cousins at Accenture, etc move into non-tech sectors as CIOs, CTOs and other leadership positions only to wreck the place in 2-3 years. They’ll quickly fill the upper ranks with their kind and before you know it everyone is fighting for rank, scope, and head count. No one is competent enough to lead large scale technical projects or transformations; technical capabilities will erode and then frozen as operations are outsourced.