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I almost got burned by this. The COO of the company basically asked my why I wasn't getting anything done. I had to be direct and say that I'm happy to spend 10
by bob33212 7y ago
I almost got burned by this. The COO of the company basically asked my why I wasn't getting anything done. I had to be direct and say that I'm happy to spend 100% of my time coding new features, but he is going to have to answer the phone when a customer says the site is down, because I will be too busy coding.
- techslave 7y agoat least there is a customer. you need to prioritize in a startup and your COO is telling you that you have the wrong priority. it’s not useful to have a reliable monitored system that no one uses.
- alasdair_ 7y agoI got burned by this. I worked at a Google spinoff as the first non-Google backend engineer. The documentation was atrocious and so was the onboarding process so I took the time to fix the problems for the next new hire. I was then told the new hire got up to speed faster than I had (no shit) and that this reflected negatively upon me.