Lot of fire-fighting
Lot of fire-fighting
Very strong leadership.
Quick project turnaround, usually between 6 to 9 months.
Easy to relate your own work contribution to the end product, which could be satisfying.
Bug fix requests frequently get labeled with "will not fix" or "fix in next chip/architecture" because there simply is not enough time or human resources to clean up the design. There is simply too much fire-fighting here.
Hardware is not designed very cleanly because of this. Some engineers may get frustrated by having to debug a debug feature. Some projects end up looking like a huge stack of bandages because of poor planning, discipline, and execution. Very poor documentation and lack of redundancy could also be looked at as efficiency and leanness, but this can be problematic when key engineers jump ship.
Quick project turnaround gives many engineers a quick excuse to turn down a bug fix request. It is probably due to resource shortage, but culture as well.
Overall work quality seems low in mobile products.
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