| > I'm happy you've only worked for altruistic, not-for-profit minded companies that care about employee growth and takes pride in their tach stack above all else. I have not had as fortunate an experience. No one is making this claim. My comment was a bit terse and provocative, rude, deserves the downvotes tbh. I'll take them. To elaborate ~ I've got a lot of empathy for the poster I was originally replying to. I've fallen into that way of thinking before, and it sure is comfortable. Of course, companies and their leadership make poor and irrational decisions. Often, however, it's easy to perceive their decisions as poor and irrational when you simply don't have the context they do. "Why would they x ?? if only y!!" but, you know, there may well be a good reason why that you aren't aware of, they may have different goals to you (which may well be selfish! and that doesn't make them irrational or anything). Feels similar to programmers hating when people say "can't you 'just' x" - well yes, but actually there's a mountain of additional considerations behind the scene that the person spouting "just" hasn't considered. Is leadership unintelligent, or displaying poor/irrational decision making, if the company self destructs? Perhaps. But quite possibly not. They probably got a whole lot out of it. Different priorities. Consider that leadership may label a developer unintelligent if that dev doesn't always consider how to drive shareholder value "gee they're so focused on increasing their salary not on business value". Well actually the dev is quite smart, from their own perspective. Same thing. And if every company you've ever worked for truly has poor leadership then, yeah, it's probably worth reassessing how you interview. Do you need to dig deeper into the business? Do you just not have the market value to negotiate landing a job at a company with intelligent leadership? So, two broad perspectives: either the poster has a challenge with perception, or they are poor at picking companies. Or perhaps the companies truly do have poor leadership but I think that unlikely. Hence it comes back to the individual. @y-c-o-m-b sorry for being a bit rude. Cheers for reading |
>And if every company you've ever worked for truly has poor leadership then, yeah, it's probably worth reassessing how you interview.
No need. I work in games. There isn't a major studio in the industry that isn't like this. An industry used to churning workers and releasing them the moment the project ends.
In some ways it's a path I chose, but at the same time it means I need to be more cynical to defend myself from their inevitably orthogonal actions. I have an exit plan, but I need more time and money first.
If the industry wasnt so secretive with its techniques and knowledge, maybe I could have side stepped it altogether. But alas.