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by moonchrome 1303 days ago
I've joined a startup with no PM and CEO assigning tasks to devs. I've spent two weeks chasing my tail and working on stuff other people were already working on as a part of some huge block of work dumped after a month of development or stuff made irrelevant by features being worked on. I quit after ~3 weeks.
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martin_drapeau 1303 days ago
The CEO was doing it wrong. They should have empowered you to talk with the customer, identify the pain point and a build a solution. You were right to leave.
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valenterry 1303 days ago
Partly on the CEO but also partly on you. If that's a startup, you should be able to figure out what's going on by talking to the others and getting an understand what is being worked on. That is, unless it's a "startup" with hundreds of employees...
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moonchrome 1303 days ago
The guy running the company and playing ad-hoc PM isn't aware what people are working on and is assigning me tasks being worked on already.

Meanwhile I'm supposed to onboard to the project, deal with technical mess that is start-up with a live product and get a hang of what everyone else in the team is doing in two weeks ?

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