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>He gutted the sales team and brought in his guys. Sales tanked, company growth stopped, hard. Features dwindled and bugs grew. how does a changed sales team c
by chii 4y ago
>He gutted the sales team and brought in his guys. Sales tanked, company growth stopped, hard. Features dwindled and bugs grew.
how does a changed sales team cause features to dwindle and bugs?
it's more likely that management attitudes changed when acquisitions happen - and that new attitude doesn't foster an environment in which good code gets written. It wouldn't have mattered if the sales team changed or not imho.
- kqr 4y ago> how does a changed sales team cause features to dwindle and bugs? I can think of at least two ways: 1. In many companies, sales is an important part of the window to the customer. Sales interprets customer desires and forwards them to product management. 2. If revenue drops, the company may need to cut costs too, and one stupid way to do this is to reduce development spending.
- wlesieutre 4y agoThe previous sentence mentioned that developers had bailed thinking they’d be hit by the layoffs, one imagines that was part of it