[dec0dedab0de]

I worked for two very large fortune 100 companies. Both of them had people in management quite obviously taking personal kickbacks from vendors. Sometimes right out in the open. I would loudly point it out in meetings, which got me uninvited from a bunch of meetings.

[D-Coder]

> which got me uninvited from a bunch of meetings.

So, not a total loss.

[steveBK123]

Every POC I have been involved in, across multiple firms, was driven by management trying to send some business to a buddys company

[gregorvand]

Definitely. I've watched a company move its entire health care plan to a startup, buddy of the CEO, to help juice said startup's customer base for investors. When the company were invited to a call to learn how their health plans had changed compared to the old provider (but after the contract was signed) - the startup 'would need more time to figure that out' .. you can imagine the deafening silence on that well-attended zoom call.

[ekianjo]

Yeah it's very often the case.