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Wow, this article echoes exactly why I'm leaving my company next week. Was hired 2 years ago as architect, but over time ended up just being micromanaged by upp

• nimbius 9y ago
  this is absolutely my sentiment. I started 3 years ago as a senior sysadmin. 2 years later its clear directors call all the shots, management tells engineers to do it, and we're expected to cheer and support the result if its moderate success is achieved, or ignore the fallout if it fails spectacularly. most of my meetings have turned into head-nodding and shrugs. Lifers at the company dont care about new ideas, and any effort to change is met with cynicism and vitriol.
  • itomato 9y ago
    Do you understand the cynicism? Is the vitriol real or imagined? If you have ideas that are both "complete" and relevant to the business, you're right to be ticked. If you're just spitballing about "things that could be better" without concrete information about what quantifies "better", you're probably not being taken seriously.
    • Retra 9y ago
      Ideas can't become complete if you're not allowed to work on them. Nobody pitches complete ideas unless they're doing something that's already been done hundreds of times before.
• oceanghost 9y ago
  Same here-- designed a system used by half a dozen major companies (MS etc). Was having design decision overridden by a PM wh had never worked a day as an engineer.