Try strategizing in a mid-sized non technical mid-sized company. Here is where engineers are treated like mechanics at pep boys. You are either ignored or put to your place about the kind of work your are supposed to do, with the exception of crisis scenarios or 'no-one is interested in the outcome' scenarios.
In large companies strategy is mostly about helping power brokers to do their bullshit jobs.
In my experience, only opportunity for engineers to contribute to a meaningful strategy is in a small team with business person as CEO/Owner and they really want to listen to the engineer's opinion.
Maybe in tech companies engineers might have different experience.
In large companies strategy is mostly about helping power brokers to do their bullshit jobs.
In my experience, only opportunity for engineers to contribute to a meaningful strategy is in a small team with business person as CEO/Owner and they really want to listen to the engineer's opinion.
Maybe in tech companies engineers might have different experience.