Bureaucracy, a large hierarchy of managers
Bureaucracy, a large hierarchy of managers
- Benefits, salary
- Technology stack in some teams
- Rotation opportunity
- Bias.
- Judgmental managers: they keep watching you.
- Long hierarchy of LTs and managers. Every one person out of twenty is a director. SDEs are 7-8 levels deep from the CEO.
- If you know people, you get opportunities. Even the external hackathon (IATA) opportunities are networking-based.
- SDEs can be seen praising the managers because of this bias and favoritism.
- Managers can say, "This is a 2-hour job, why is it taking long?"
- Because of this, you will find unnecessary tech without design considerations, and new people get busy justifying it or removing it. It took 1 month for a person to add cache, and 1.5 years for people after to discuss removing it because it was not solving the problem. Nevertheless, the person who added it in 1 month got promoted.
- Speed matters in work, not quality in many teams. Some managers are real badasses.
- No firing for LTs because they are like the government; they make decisions.
- Keep LT hierarchy simple. Remove unnecessary roles in LTs. I have 5 people who are interested in knowing my status in LTs. One wants to start an AB test; another wants to talk to external directors if I have any questions. Keep it a developer-driven culture, not LT-driven.
Keep the LT hierarchy simple.
Remove unnecessary roles in LTs.
I have five people interested in knowing my status in LTs.
One wants to start an AB test.
Another wants to talk to external directors if I have any questions.
Keep it a developer-driven culture, not LT-driven.
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