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Sounds like a management/culture issue. That's not an excuse to not cycle in new staff and people move around.

• aledalgrande 7y ago
  Yup. Can't get that promotion if you are on the wrong product/team, that's what I heard at least.
  • devicetray0 7y ago
    It's still a reason not to use their products, if you know the staff cares more about the promo than the product. Why would I want to use something (or build a business on something) that would disappear soon thereafter.
• username90 7y ago
  Managers are just employees as well who also pick projects that will benefit their careers. Why work on a small thing with a few million users where you will never get promoted since you are already at the top, when you could just move to the next growth ship where lots of people are hired so moving up the ranks as a manager happens naturally? To me it seems like this culture seems to go all the way to the top. It is not like Sundar got promoted so quickly due to his work on an obscure product.
  • jedberg 7y ago
    > Why work on a small thing with a few million users where you will never get promoted That's the management problem right there. You should be able to get promotions for maintaining/improving a small product. The fact that you can't is what causes this endless shutdown mentality.
• jarfil 7y ago
  If the project is a dead end, and nobody knows how to change that, it sounds like a good idea to let it die.
• UncleMeat 7y ago
  Why support a dying product? Pivoting is a key part of startup success. Why can't large companies recognize a shift in user needs (after a decade) and decide that something is no longer valuable? Ultimately, you really are never going to see innovation if the cost of launching a product is "staff the product literally forever, no matter if it is losing money or no longer aligned with priorities".