[throwaway5959]

Work for a terrible engineering organization (public, private, doesn’t matter) and you’ll understand. Especially where technical leadership can’t rely on engineers to do anything but code with very strict guardrails.

[itsoktocry]

>Work for a terrible engineering organization (public, private, doesn’t matter) and you’ll understand.

Understand what? This guy is contributing to horrible environments, not just a victim.

Why are do so many tech people have such low agency?

[throwaway5959]

I never said I would work for a place like that again. Just trying to explain why he may feel frustrated.