Too big for its own good
Too big for its own good
- Exposure to large-scale distributed systems and complex architecture.
- Opportunities to work with talented engineers (less of this lately as all the good ones are being driven out by incompetent managers).
- High ownership and autonomy in some teams.
- Increasing focus on delivering projects at all costs, leading to technical debt and unstable systems.
- Frequent leadership changes and shifting priorities without a clear long-term vision.
- Multiple overlapping projects competing internally rather than collaborating.
- Promotions often tied to quick wins, leaving long-term maintainability for others to fix.
- Recent gen AI push with tracking of tool usage, commit counts, etc., that appears to be a setup for upcoming layoffs.
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