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Love it! It reminds a bit on this mehanical programming game https://www.turingtumble.com/
where you have to reconstruct a marble pattern with logical gates controlling how the marbles flow.
Will try this with my daughter next time.
I was expecting a dull write-up but this essay is extremely insight full and deep.
The problems and issues are probably not restricted to the military apparatus. Many organizational inefficiencies in e.g. Turkish political/private organizations are due same reasons.
It's an unreasonable ask. Not a single engineer stays his whole career with the same manager. Furthermore, needs change since demands and projects change.
Therefore at a big company the best strategy is to check fundamentals.
I agree that it's a BS strategy. I would love that the hiring process is a internship or some other real work simulation. Unfortunately they do not scale.
Maybe the author should consider a smaller company where one can predict the future role.