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You throw bodies at it. A small bunch of people will be overworked, stressed, constantly fighting fires and struggling to fight technical debt, implement featur
by 0xbadcafebee 5y ago
You throw bodies at it. A small bunch of people will be overworked, stressed, constantly fighting fires and struggling to fight technical debt, implement features, and keep the thing afloat. Production is always a hair away from falling over but luck and grit keeps it running. To the team it's a nightmare, to the business everything is fine.
- wnolens 5y agothis is the answer. source: currently being burned out on an adjacent aws team..
- 0xbadcafebee 5y agoThat sucks, man. If they won't move you to another team, just get out of there. We don't benefit by suffering for them, and they're not gonna change.
- wnolens 5y agoYea. I can probably move to a more chill team, but I wouldn't work on anything nearly as cutting edge. I mentally check out for weeks at a time, then get back into it and deliver something large. I'm low key job hunting, but don't entirely trust that it'll be different anywhere else (previous jobs were like this too)
- dustingetz 5y agoliterally every co if you want to know why capitalism causes this, start a startup and prioritize quality, do not get to market, do not raise money, do not pass go, watch dumpster fires with millions of betrayed and angry users raise their series d