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Broken Technical Pipeline

Wasted Potential: Talent and skills are often not utilized due to competing personal agendas, flip-flopping direction, and instability from constant reorganization.

Fix the engineering pipeline. Ensure that each grade level engineer is responsible for mentoring and raising the grade engineer below them, as well as shadowing and learning from the one above them. This way, you don't just use engineers to build others' empires but rather grow and develop engineers and create a healthy engineering culture where collaboration and solution engineering is more important than the fickle, backhanded, and cutthroat rules of Focal.

Keep and build authentic technical leaders. These leaders should be truly connected to the execution trenches and not just floating in theoretical clouds and attending all the meetings. Really listen to and empower them.