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When you're working day to day you tend to lose sight of the bigger picture and only focus on the problem you're trying to solve and either let your managers mo
by Zarath 7y ago
When you're working day to day you tend to lose sight of the bigger picture and only focus on the problem you're trying to solve and either let your managers mostly decide what problems you will solve, or just work to get "features" implemented for promotional reasons.
- dbbk 7y agoI don't accept this excuse. Google engineers are smart people. It's not like they are not aware of what they are building.
- dk- 7y agowith the exception of the very few people who know how to manage upwards, when you are the bottom rung of the totem pole org chart (and i'm not talking about developer or engineer levels), you have zero say over what comes down from 2 or 3 levels above you.
- dbbk 7y agoI'm not suggesting they have 'say' over it. I'm saying they are aware of what they're building, and they're choosing to be complicit in it. I don't know if you can easily move to a different project within Google, but they certainly don't have to work at Google if they disagreed with it.