[bcrosby95]

I work on a lot of features lately handed down from the CEO of our client. And he places deadlines so unrealistic his own team oftentimes doesn't get us the details until a couple of days before the deadline. For work that takes weeks to do.

Stuff is constantly pushed back. The India launch so far has been pushed back 9 months. A new product launch in the USA was pushed back 3 weeks - he initially said they were launching January 1st, when they get 2 weeks off for Christmas and no one works on new years day. Lol.

Even external deadlines need to face reality.

[jefftk]

It sounds like management at your company isn't doing a good job pushing back on these requests or insulating the dev team from this unreasonable client?

[gowld]

But you work for your CEO, not your client's CEO. Even Steve Jobs called Larry Page, not a random engineer, when he didn't like the Google icon on the iPhone.