Ask HN: What is the fundamental difference between engineering and marketing?
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In most organizations the difference is clear: marketing provides a clear benefit to the business in the form of brand recognition, sales, and stickiness while engineering is a cost not unlike the costs a retailer incurs sourcing products: sometimes it delivers substandard products and sometimes spectacular ones.
There is a relationship between the two, but they're different disciplines with different goals and different methods to achieve them.
There is a relationship between the two, but they're different disciplines with different goals and different methods to achieve them.
Engineering takes a desired outcome in the physical or virtual world and, using principals of math(computer science), physics and chemistry, reduced to reliable functional mechanisms aggregated in a logical fashion, constructs a device that produces on demand the desired outcome.
Marketing, on the other hand, takes a desired outcome in sales and, using the powers of persuasion, produces the desired outcome of greater sales ( I suppose).
so,