The organisation I'm currently working for is trying to move everything to the MS ecosystem. It's all being decided by executives who have no business reason to do so, it just seems like a 'good idea'. I'm not exaggerating. They really are that stupid and they're prepared to throw a lot of money away doing it. They're like sacrificial goats that lie on their back with
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tattooed across their rich, juicy belly.
There are even talking about using Microsoft's analytics, you know, big data lakes, Spark running over clusters, the fucking works. But they have very little data to analyse, no idea whatsoever what they're analysing for, and no one in the organisation seems to have any knowledge of statistics, analysis, ML, or as far as I can tell, anything beyond basic mathematics.
No common sense, no ability to listen. Fuck it.
Edit: meanwhile the plebs on the ground are suffering from a lack of knowledge and even basic software tools. It's like top management are trying to compete with Liz Truss for who can do the worst possible job.
your management are being sold on a completely different plane of value than you.. you are chattle, livestock.. MSFT is selling coordinated livestock management equipment, with reporting and metrics at every step, remote surveillance too if that is what management wants. You are the last in the chain and you are not in the loop.
Ooh this sounds familiar a lot also has to do with getting finances.
A manager once explained it too me, see if i make a down to earth presentation to investors i might get just enough money. But if i use the fancy flavour of the year tech terms i know im guaranteed to get enough financing and maybe even enough to expand.
May be you are in a position where you don't understand long term goal/vision of the company.
Most of the business want to concentrate on their core business than mucking around IT or software. They would be happy to throw few million bucks to Microsoft or other stuff and make billions out of their core business.
There are even talking about using Microsoft's analytics, you know, big data lakes, Spark running over clusters, the fucking works. But they have very little data to analyse, no idea whatsoever what they're analysing for, and no one in the organisation seems to have any knowledge of statistics, analysis, ML, or as far as I can tell, anything beyond basic mathematics.
No common sense, no ability to listen. Fuck it.
Edit: meanwhile the plebs on the ground are suffering from a lack of knowledge and even basic software tools. It's like top management are trying to compete with Liz Truss for who can do the worst possible job.