Most places I’ve worked had the attitude that profit center = sales and everyone else was a cost to be controlled or eliminated. It shouldn’t be really surprising that management thinks management is the most valuable function, and actually making the product is not.
I used to think that the team building the product was a profit center. The more time we spend solving customer problems, the more revenue the company generates.
The reality is they view engineering teams like assembly line workers. The revenue was generated by the sales team and now they come to the engineers to get the bad news of how much that revenue is going to cost them.
