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I am happy to work at a tech company where your BS can be easily surfaced using pure logic. If you can't code and don't do good coding or designing then it does not give you enough leeway to BS.

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Yes, perhaps more than some other fields. However don't underestimate the number of decisions which must be made with less than adequate information and sometimes multiple outcomes can be chosen which are supported by available data. Also there are times when someone's experience can help them understand how a stream of data will change over time and they can use that to get ahead of the change rather than being purely reactive.

I'm not disagreeing with you entirely, just proposing that it isn't usually so black and white in our industry.

This is precisely why there's a strong focus on deliverables in project management. You can have a meeting with 20+ people every day if you want, but if there's no deliverable that moves the project, it's a waste of cash and it hits the budget immediately.

Focus on deliverables and that outs the bullshitters very quickly.

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