[ryandrake]

This is one of the things I try to suss out when I interview somewhere. Do you have a product team (or at least someone in leadership) with a stable requirements vision, or do you just haphazardly develop based on whoever your sales team last talked to. Having a stable roadmap is an absolute requirement for me. I may not agree with the roadmap or priorities, but I'd rather have them than not have them.

I've worked in both types of companies, and the ones where sales dictated what we worked on this week were universally awful.

[SoftTalker]

Another thing to be wary of is a product where there are a small number of customers, maybe even just one, who contribute the vast majority of the revenue. Because then, even with a good product vision, it's going to be very hard to say "no" to what they ask for.