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An important sign of a dysfunctional technology company would be a sales culture that systematically overpromises in order to gain marketshare. Overpromising can be successful in a couple of sales cycles because it forces engineers to work extra hard to ensure the survival of the company. When this practice becomes a business pattern, engineers burn out and quit, the product/service stagnates technologically and new customers don't join the promised platform.
It looks like we have a similar situation in the government now, where a political candidate promised "a beautiful wall paid by Mexico" in order to gain votershare, but once in office, can't deliver on that promise. It's even more remarkable that he couldn't deliver on that promise even when his party for two years was in full control of the legislative branch of the government.
Moreover, overpromising and undedelivering was an established business pattern for this particular candidate, who went bankrupt several times in his career. That's why no serious investor in the US would consider financing his ventures after the 1990s. Somehow, a significant group of gullible voters (with some assistance from a hostile foreign power) gave a disrespected businessman access to the largest treasury in the world. As a result, the country ran up $2T more debt in a growing economy and has her government shut because of a dispute over $5B "feature" promised during the campaign.
If it were a private company or a developing country, investors would flee it in a flash.
It looks like we have a similar situation in the government now, where a political candidate promised "a beautiful wall paid by Mexico" in order to gain votershare, but once in office, can't deliver on that promise. It's even more remarkable that he couldn't deliver on that promise even when his party for two years was in full control of the legislative branch of the government.
Moreover, overpromising and undedelivering was an established business pattern for this particular candidate, who went bankrupt several times in his career. That's why no serious investor in the US would consider financing his ventures after the 1990s. Somehow, a significant group of gullible voters (with some assistance from a hostile foreign power) gave a disrespected businessman access to the largest treasury in the world. As a result, the country ran up $2T more debt in a growing economy and has her government shut because of a dispute over $5B "feature" promised during the campaign.
If it were a private company or a developing country, investors would flee it in a flash.
