[eldavido]

As a developer, it is highly upsetting to me when sales does this.

A well-functioning product development org has processes in place to decide what gets done first. These processes take into account tons of inputs including bug feedback, enhancement requests, potential for outages if something isn't fixed, long- and short-term competitive and strategic concerns, customer requests, and internally-sourced architecture requests.

Then some selfish jackass comes along (from whatever department) who just can't wait because WE NEED TO GET THIS DEAL, so the entire process is thrown out the window to satisfy the whims of one customer, who may not even be large, high-revenue, or strategically important, and the wrong works gets done.

Please, stop the madness. Don't go around the product team, and if you're in eng, please don't tolerate this bad behavior.

[douche]

Fuck those people. Sales that are that pathological are all kinds of broken.