As someone that had a 4+ decade career as a peon in a list of Silicon Valley hi tech corp engineering departments, I learned to strongly dislike corporate bean counters that usually lived in Wall Street financial offices thousands of miles away. First thing they would do is hire some top Ivy League graduate with a Human Resource Management degree to lead their companies, all of which are taught the prime directive was to follow their corporate bean counter playbook wishes. Wall Street took years for their financial people to infiltrate the new West Coast world and generally hated paying salaries accomplished engineers deserved and demanded.
The first thing they did was to have their HR puppets increasingly hire H1B foreigners and newly degreed engineers as much as possible for lower wages despite any lack of experience, much of which cannot be taught in any school. Some engineers fled into sales and sales support engineering areas where given their superior English speaking skills, they thrived. They created job requests with little details they could use as excuses to not otherwise hire experienced Americans. Often degree terms only recent graduates could qualify for while ignoring experience in same. Increasingly ignored resumes of most except those gurus they could not replace and demanded they train any less talented. Company wide layoffs that were once only emergency measures became regular that caused much negativity, paranoia, and lack of trust in team environments. Thankfully the rise of linkedin and networking considerably crimped their powers.
After squeezing out as much as they could from breaking into whatever lucrative product realm while employees expected a long term ride, bean counters would offshore USA production and sell American developed technology to eager Asian government corporations. So yeah skiing world, welcome to the game you can expect financial bean counters to play so they and their other wealthy leeches can retire to Palm Beach and Palm Springs playing golf.
