These engineering PHDs are not very smart but they sure are extremely arrogant and self righteous assholes. The one at my workplace almost broke an entire production server due to his incompetence. He decided to push out a new codebase, completely untested to one of our servers. And I quote "it deployed without errors, so were good". When asked how he tested this, he couldn't answer, heck he didn't even know how to run the fucking thing locally. He essentially blind wrote code and pushed it without giving a fuck about the ramifications. Then he lied about what he did by implying no build errors = no testing required.
In terms of smartness, the guy isn't that smart. He can't just look shit up, so he constantly asks everyone else dumb as shit questions. We end up spending absurd amount of times telling him how to do things, because he personally believes doing research is beneath him. Ironically when he was doing his PHD, his manager had the same problems. Refused to listen, thought he knew better, arrogantly did things his way even when they were clearly not good measures.
He recently spent close to 3 weeks working on something. One of our interns got it working in 2 days. It worked just fine, and it did what we wanted it to. PHD man was so livid, he tried to erase the intern's code from our repos. Apparently when he was doing his PHD he got in massive trouble for falsifying data because he hated that his model didn't fit the data. Instead of realizing the assertion he made was wrong, he tampered with the data until it fit his preconceived ideas. We compared the two solutions and found the PHD solution would overrun costs by thousands of dollars of months and had lots of latency issues. But when it comes to academic, ive found most PHDs give zero fucks about minute issues like monthly cost, latency, architectures, maintenance, cleanliness. They have this idea of fuck it, get it out the door, and have someone else fix it later.
If he wasn't so cozy with upper management, he would have been shitcanned long ago. But instead, the useful productive people get shitcanned, whilst arrogant dunning kruger retards get to keep their jobs. This guy is a die hard libtard, biden supporter. Ironically PHD and academics are heavily subsidized by government, and his surroundings but isn too self unaware to realize just how much aid he sucks in. He loves biden because like most academics, hes completely shielded from the retardation through billions in taxpayer cash propping up their lifestyle. More of the same, iovry tower assholes without a clue how the real world works decreeing their ways down everyone's throats.
Jimmycrackerson 1 points 11 months ago
This is the recurring theme almost everywhere I've worked. The most incompetent, conniving, lazy fucks get cozy with the bosses. Then they become the ones making decisions. Even though their job description is the exact same as mine. I always make it a point to seek them out, vastly outperform them, undermine their "authority" and make them miserable every single day.