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This happened to me exactly. I was at a YC company and thriving and then they hired a "director of engineering" that was simply an arrogant asshole. I tried my
by steven2012 11y ago
This happened to me exactly. I was at a YC company and thriving and then they hired a "director of engineering" that was simply an arrogant asshole. I tried my best to continue performing but the last straw was when I was given a very complex task, told to make any bug fixes and escalations my top priority, and then blamed for not completing my task because I spent all my time on escalations.
I was gone within 2 months after that with half the other team.
- jschwartzi 11y agoThis is basically how the entire company I work for operates. The biggest problem is wishful thinking when scheduling brand new features, as in "you have a week to write a robust one-dimensional edge-detection and comparison algorithm, but the hardware the data is sampled from won't be ready for another four weeks." We're currently in the Death March phase, because our wishful thinking has caused so much stuff to slip that our milestones are slipping. I'm currently working on my resume.