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    • BillyMays [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      This community loves you beatnik. Sorry you’re having a rough day.

    • the_river_cass [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      They’ve dissolved all dedicated dev teams and are now doing a “shared resource pool”, which is the most ghoulish and disorganized shit ever. The engineers here are already overloaded and there’s no way in fuck I can add to that stress in good conscience.

      lol they tried this at my old place and it ground everything to a halt for like 6 months. luckily I convinced my boss that it was pointless to keep ops people in a team like that and we put our own team together instead so I didn't have to attend dozens of meetings every week that were about 6 times as long as necessary...

        • the_river_cass [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          well, you see, that team was operating really well so obviously the way to teach everyone else how to function as a team is to put them on that team, all at once.

          I'm not even kidding. that was literally their reasoning.

          jesus christ, they were throwing ops in there too?

          we were trying to embed ops in the dev teams for a little while to try and get the teams towards cross-functionality. it didn't work and I won't try that again.

          the amount of meetings I attend that are actively hostile towards any kind of agenda or structure is baffling.

          I started walking into every meeting with my own agenda and just took them over. it was less painful that way and it made the meetings more productive, if a little focused on the things I cared about.

          I’m stubborn as hell about pushing through reform and process improvement, but this place is hopeless.

          I'm confident it's possible everywhere but I seriously wonder if it's worth it at places like this. the personal cost is measured in years of our lives and the execs always find a new way to piss all the improvements down the drain.

          FAANG sounds miserable to me personally but best of luck trying to find something better.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      I feel you. Trying to train new people to actually do their jobs properly, being told that "they're junior, they'll jump ship in 18 months, don't bother. we can just use them as grunt-work people"

      Then getting chewed out as a time-wasting perfectionist who blows deadlines because I'm basically redoing all their work in QA.

      Then getting chewed out for not wasting even more time by sending it back to them once the boss tried to QA their work and shock! It's not great! Because they're not fucking trained!

        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          Marketing, not software, though there is a fair amount of code/web dev work involved.