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Perfectly sums up my experience dealing with the mess that is the IT of major German company in the automotive industry that I work for. Tons of mini-fiefdoms,
by drooopy 3y ago
Perfectly sums up my experience dealing with the mess that is the IT of major German company in the automotive industry that I work for. Tons of mini-fiefdoms, each with its own strong-minded lord who has held that position for literal decades and who wants to expand their influence on other fiefdoms, an infrastructure where every single one of its components is incompatible and was never designed to work with anything else and that is held together with figurative duct tape and tons of depressed and overworked colleagues who would jump to another opportunity in a heartbeat but the money is actually good so we all just have to deal with it.
- rft 3y agoYepp, we once spent about 1.5 hours in a meeting walking the org chart of such a company to figure out which 4 emails to 4 people (plus copious amounts of CCs just to add to the "urgency" and inbox bloat) I had to write to unblock the project after 2 or 3 unproductive weekly meetings. And I did that as an external supplier, I would have thought it was in their best interested to just collect what we need and get the ball rolling internally. After all, they are paying us to deliver something.
- drooopy 3y agoIf you guys had 3 different town halls in the past couple of years where 3 completely different strategies and visions for IT were discussed, then we are probably colleagues lol