I’ve faced this a lot, particularly when the management is a couple of layers away from the team doing the work. It makes me wonder how these organisations don

I’ve faced this a lot, particularly when the management is a couple of layers away from the team doing the work. It makes me wonder how these organisations don’t collapse under the weight of their ineptitude. Most of the bugs or issues I have to fix are from problems we created by short term hacks. Way beyond simple tech debt. The engineers are as much at fault as the managers, particularly when it comes to introducing insane complexity to the stack to solve simple problems (how many startups seriously need to invest in tech like gRPC or graphql except to gain cool points?). Management, on the other hand, have no empathy for the people doing the work, so quality dips as we are pressured by both self-imposed and external deadlines which are decided with zero input from engineers. Half the time we web engineers are building glorified content management systems with some nice design over the top. It’s boring but it’s not a burn out.