>be manager/hiring manager managing engineers>hire people based on how much you like them over how qualified they are>the engineers they do hire only get promoted based on how good their social skills are, the managers are too egotistical to ever admit that turnover is a bad thing..If a large engineering comapny is lagging behind or failing, this is the reason. Simple as. Find a tech comapny who just got aquired by a larger organization and is re organizing using this boomer ideology, you can safely bet against it..