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Part of the issue is that they often don't want you to decide what to build. They've separated out the "building" from the "deciding what to build", so hearing

Part of the issue is that they often don't want you to decide what to build. They've separated out the "building" from the "deciding what to build", so hearing from a candidate that it's important to focus on what to do is off-putting to an organization that just wants you to munch through JIRA tickets all day and find technical solutions to whatever somebody else wants, and then keep a smile on as they change their mind and discard the feature.

replyifuagree 5y ago
100%. Legacy company management finds software engineers who engage in the very relevant question of "what to build" extremely threatening. In my experience they actually treat software engineers who behave that way as disloyal. As compared to places like tesla/shopify/etc where the Steve Jobs quote rules the roost: It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.