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Director of engineering != product manager in charge of deciding what features to include. If somebody tells engineering, “we will not use this feature illegall
by barbariangrunge 4y ago
Director of engineering != product manager in charge of deciding what features to include. If somebody tells engineering, “we will not use this feature illegally,” then it’s the fault of the higher ups who are possibly (?) trying to scapegoat somebody to protect themselves
- oshkarr 4y ago"I was just following orders" went out of style in 1946. Software engineers are not mindless drones.
- r_hoods_ghost 4y agoDirectors have specific, well defined legal duties to their company which includes a duty of fiduciary responsibility. That is why they're directors rather than "head of product" or "VP of marketing" or whatever other meaningless title people bestow on themselves. Saying "my boss told me to do it so it is not my fault" is nonsense because you have no boss beyond your shareholders.
- astrange 4y agoIsn't VP usually a higher title than director? (Well, it's not in finance, but it could be in tech-like crypto finance.)
- reverius42 4y agoThat's Director as in Board of Directors. In this case, "Director of Engineering" probably just means "Manager of managers of engineers".
- ummonk 4y agoHolding the title "director of X" doesn't mean you're necessarily on the board of directors.
- xdavidliu 4y agoin fact, the two are probably anti-correlated