1. Inner dev loop (build, run test suites) took about an hour when it worked, and was constantly flaky. Every dev had to just suck it up and cope, while still

1. Inner dev loop (build, run test suites) took about an hour when it worked, and was constantly flaky. Every dev had to just suck it up and cope, while still delivering their own work. I went to the director (boss' boss' boss) and told him how much productivity is being left on the table. He said he was completely aware, and felt like this was a perfect project for someone to take up in a grass-roots manner (i.e. 120% time). 2. Under-leveled on hire (i accepted it, so that's on me), then promotion held hostage to deliver larger things, with ever expanding scope of the promotion rubric.