| The ratio of people with inane checklists who spend their entire day in meetings to people doing actual work exceeds 1:10. Employees who essentially believe in magic because anything ‘tech’ is beyond them. Willingness to spend ridiculous sums on outside contractors/agencies to ‘speed things up’ without 1) understanding why that doesn’t work and 2) not rewarding employees working their asses off with no raises. Not saying no to shining new things in a desperate attempt to increase revenue. Failure to realistically analyze and kill such shining new things post launch when they drive no revenue, but increase technical burden. Devs constantly hammered as not doing things quickly enough by the same people who don’t do actual work other than above checklists. Failure to recognize that exception handling is critical in things like Ecommerce and you have folks that aren’t going home until all the 1 in 1000 issues are dealt with because a paying customer is actually expecting a product. People calling into meetings from poolside or better yet Hawaii acting like they are working remotely. Thinking that MS Teams is just as good as Slack or anything else. Man, this has been a hard fucking year. |
I can relate to this. There's no one qualified to lead engineering teams where I work. Each team has to somehow dig for internal requirements that aren't socialized across engineering.