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If you are a senior member of the team and problems are apparent to you, I would expect you to productivity call them out. It sounds like you want to gripe abo

• Aeolun 6y ago
  No, no. I’m talking about bringing the problem to some higher ups attention, but also needing to expend the effort to both come up with a plan for fixing it, as well as actually convince this 50 person team to do this thing. And then still have nothing happen because the people above are mostly paying lip service to improvement, but not actually changing their ways. It’s like needing to expend 200% effort because others are expending only 10%. Edit: But yeah, I also gripe about it on HN because it’s carthartic ;)
  • xyzelement 6y ago
    It's a little hard to follow you but it still sounds like this to me: there's a problem I am seeing, others are "bad" for not fixing it but I am "justified" in doing nothing. So it's not surprising nothing gets done. For what it's worth, my strategy has always been to grapple with these situations. Sometimes you get to have impact and learn in the process: eg how do I communicate about this problem in a way that gets traction? If you can do it, you will "level up" in your career. Alternatively you may learn why things being as they are is a reasonable trade-off for the situation you are in. This may also level you up by helping you think on "what makes sense for the business" rathe than simply "I don't like it" level. At worst, you'll have a story for your next interview about how you tried and failed to make a big improvement like this. I have a similar story and it resonates really well for senior roles.