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by majormajor 1736 days ago
Upper management won't value you constantly disagreeing with them on risk/reward tradeoffs like "how finished does the code need to be" or "how many bugs are OK for now." Maybe they say "yes, but if we don't get it done by the deadline, we might lose $LARGE_NUMBER in business because..." After that point, there's a difference between seen as usefully raising a concern and being stubborn and annoying.

Or, possibly upper management is just clueless to the cost of the bugs that are shipping. But you still probably won't get far if you just say "this is too buggy" and can't show them why they're wrong and you're right about it harming the business. Maybe you can persuade them if you go get some data. Maybe not.

Ultimately, if the kind of software they want doesn't line up with the kind of software you want to build, don't expect to get rewarded for constantly complaining about it. You're probably better off finding a place where you align better in terms of what type of software they want to ship.