Frustrating Lack Of Direction
Frustrating Lack Of Direction
- Good compensation
- Great internal tools, a lot of them
- Great people to learn from
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Lack of clear direction from leadership. Priorities shift continuously, every year or every 6 months.
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Lack of long-term vision. All projects are PSC-oriented and need to produce measurable results in a short time. This has all sorts of side effects, like shortcuts, tech debt, and a lack of innovation.
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A bottom-up culture where engineers are pressured to find the scope and projects to work on, but constrained by points 1 and 2 and without having control over anything.
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Absurd 10% fire/10% hire rule, which exacerbates point 2.
Stop doing the things listed in "cons".
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