Agreed. No reason to panic. Your experience is not at all unusual. The further up the management hierarchy you go the more results oriented they become. At a

Agreed. No reason to panic. Your experience is not at all unusual. The further up the management hierarchy you go the more results oriented they become. At a certain level of management profit & loss, delivering faster at less cost become the focus of attention. Your immediate manager might be coping some flak from his manager. But that is not for you to be concerned about. Simply continue to produce good work. Learn from the more senior devs and remain respectfully accepting of comments from your manager's manager and anybody further up. Remembering that they do not have sufficiently detailed knowledge about what you do but they like to think that they do. Being diplomatic means that you never debate with them. If they make any substantial suggestions, discuss them with your immediate manager and ask them for advice on how to proceed.