>L6 and above employees would receive this: staff+ engineers, eng leadership, sales etc. So all the people that have the authority and capability of saying "wo

>L6 and above employees would receive this: staff+ engineers, eng leadership, sales etc. So all the people that have the authority and capability of saying "woah, woah, woah, we're building something far too complicated" had all the information they needed to prove it, and didn't. That's a fascinating sign of immaturity, and arguably incompetence, at some level in the org. The article points out engineers pushing up about scaling down infrastructure, but it's not clear if that came from the staff+ level or below (or both?), and leadership pushing back, or quite what.