>Provide interesting problems that need solving. Be specific about them. Something I am starting to realize is that frequently I am pitched some hot project du

>Provide interesting problems that need solving. Be specific about them. Something I am starting to realize is that frequently I am pitched some hot project during interviews or quickly after joining, but the projects _never_ pan out. Not that the projects get tried out then killed. The projects just never materialize. I was at one place and they had promised me essentially principal engineer, help us overhaul our stuff, we're fucked kind of role. After a year, I was on a once a month QA rotation and when I wasn't, I was writing Cypress tests and never shipping anything due to the enormous tech debt leadership had no interest in fixing.