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What happened to this person?

• PragmaticPulp 6y ago
  His strategies worked at first, at least before he had really delivered anything of value. It started to unravel later when he couldn’t deliver on all (or really any) of his promises. I think he was operating under the assumption that he could build rapport quickly and then hire a team underneath him to get the work done. That might work at a hyper growth startup that values growth over profit, but we were a mature and profitable company looking to keep headcount reasonable. Most of his plans were so over engineered that they would have take 5-10x the engineers to actually finish on time, so they ended up being half-finished projects that requires constant on-call attention. That was the tipping point for a lot of us in the old guard. There was an exodus around that time, including myself. It’s not worth fighting those political battles day in and day out while walking on eggshells in every Slack channel.
  • hitekker 6y ago
    Sounds like the engineering higher ups turned a blind eye to his antics. Good on you for exiting.