A few examples: top-rank dev preserving power by slowing down growth for everyone, designer pairing with executive to sidestep decision-making - and destroy pre

A few examples: top-rank dev preserving power by slowing down growth for everyone, designer pairing with executive to sidestep decision-making - and destroy previous work by the team in the process, new people looking solely for promotions, new managers caring more about looking good than helping the product stay on track (i.e. replacing a very well-planned roadmap with vanity or metrics-hacking features). Most of these result in developers now working on things that have no real impact or don’t make sense for the product, and it hurts. You might be right, and it’s not fair of me to expect everyone to have the same driving goals, but I simply miss the ability to focus on building something good (for customers and the business) and everyone being in tune, instead of catering to an endless stream of personal needs. Worse, in order to “perform well” it forces you to prioritize saving face and pleasing people over actual product/design/engineering, since half of your peers don’t care, or will be gone by next cycle.