It's not enough to be a brilliant engineer and designer these days. You also need to exhibit some semblance of social skills, tact, and etiquette. Despite all the general dislike creative designers often harbor towards management personnel, there are equally brilliant and effective management staff capable of preventing the issues alleged to have happened at GitHub. Whether it's a large corporation that requires a dedicated managerial department or a small team of 20 designers, someone has to step up and control negative office politics. Some of the alleged behaviors from other team members is simply unacceptable and indicative of extremely ineffective and totally incompetent management.
Having spent a lot of time in India over the last 30 years, I have a soft spot for Tata vehicles. I've seen the company grow from a diesel engine and heavy truck manufacturer to a competitor in the small vehicles market, competing with Suzuki, Honda, Toyota, and others in India. Their diesel engine designs are rock solid and scale down to small city vehicles very well. I recently drove a Tata Indica (which I believe has a 3-4 cylinder diesel, no turbo) from Jaipur to Agra and back and the machine got 60 mpg! I feel like the US is suppressing Americans by forcing them to guzzle gasoline - most Asian and European markets have various small diesel car options. Regarding safety equipment, etc... that's something DOT will need to retrofit into these imports, as it has done for all the others in the past.
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It's not enough to be a brilliant engineer and designer these days. You also need to exhibit some semblance of social skills, tact, and etiquette. Despite all the general dislike creative designers often harbor towards management personnel, there are equally brilliant and effective management staff capable of preventing the issues alleged to have happened at GitHub. Whether it's a large corporation that requires a dedicated managerial department or a small team of 20 designers, someone has to step up and control negative office politics. Some of the alleged behaviors from other team members is simply unacceptable and indicative of extremely ineffective and totally incompetent management.
Having spent a lot of time in India over the last 30 years, I have a soft spot for Tata vehicles. I've seen the company grow from a diesel engine and heavy truck manufacturer to a competitor in the small vehicles market, competing with Suzuki, Honda, Toyota, and others in India. Their diesel engine designs are rock solid and scale down to small city vehicles very well. I recently drove a Tata Indica (which I believe has a 3-4 cylinder diesel, no turbo) from Jaipur to Agra and back and the machine got 60 mpg! I feel like the US is suppressing Americans by forcing them to guzzle gasoline - most Asian and European markets have various small diesel car options. Regarding safety equipment, etc... that's something DOT will need to retrofit into these imports, as it has done for all the others in the past.