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.