"By hiring inexperienced workers and indoctrinating them into a religion that taught the concept that metaprogrammers were better than mere programmers and that Bill Gates, as the metametaprogrammer, was perfect, Microsoft created a system of hero worship that extended Gates’s will into every aspect of the lives of employees he had not even met." - Cringley, Accidental Empires

And oh wow, it appears that some large portion (if not all) of the book is available on Cringley's web site: https://www.cringely.com/2013/02/04/accidental-empires-part-...