Sam Parr argues that many tech jobs exist just so managers can request bigger budgets and claim more responsibility. Shaan Puri counters that if companies kept surplus budget as reward and judged people on output alone, they'd stop creating unnecessary positions.
Large percentage of jobs in the tech world are bullshit jobs. They're only there because the person who's running this particular division has to request more budget and hire more so they get more responsibility and more credit. They seem more important. So then when they go to their next company, they get paid more and they climb the ladder because it seems like you manage 200 people, you must be legit.
If everybody got the same budget and then you were just measured on how much you got done and you got to keep the extra, I think companies would work wildly differently than they do today.
