"'The reality is, look, most people change jobs all the time, and we should make it fluid, right? I think there's huge value to the government, and there's huge value to the private sector by us having a lot more commingling of that,' Kupor said. 'I would love to have young engineers come here for two, or three, or four years and, quite frankly, then go to the private sector, and realize that the private sector values the experience they have.'"
""Let's go to all the great technology companies and say, 'you know what, show us your directors, senior directors, VPs,'" Kupor said on an episode of The a16z Podcast released on Thursday. "Let's put them on a two-year secondment, for example, in the government and have them come be managers of early career technology teams.""
"Kupor said that bringing in more senior tech industry workers could address what he sees as a "technical management problem" in the government, where managers don't have technical experiences and are "just not, quite frankly, able to provide career development.""
The Office of Personnel Management aims to increase connectivity between public and private sectors by bringing senior technology managers into government on two-year secondments to manage early-career tech teams. Introducing experienced private-sector technical leaders intends to address a technical management problem in government where managers lack technical backgrounds and struggle to provide career development. The plan promotes fluid movement between sectors, rejects a strict public-private dichotomy, and encourages young engineers to spend several years in government before returning to the private sector with valuable, recognized experience.
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