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When hiring fast, there's also an element of "we'll find something for you to do", meaning that you're expected to find something yourself. This can lead to peo
by autoexecbat 3y ago
When hiring fast, there's also an element of "we'll find something for you to do", meaning that you're expected to find something yourself. This can lead to people becoming very narrow on something that the business doesn't really value
- nine_zeros 3y agoOr better yet, "We hired you to do some work" but at performance review time "tell us how you have made an impact" Dear company, I did what you asked me to do. If my work doesn't have adequate impact, that is on you for planning poorly.
- slt2021 3y agothats the meaning of working for engineering-driven company. Engineers are trusted to collaborate among themselves and drive feature roadmap, and to make an impact. Leadership doesnt trust non-engineers to handhold engineers and spoon feed feature requests, all non-engineer types should be focused on selling/marketing product or customer support
- kovezd 3y agoBrilliant! As if a solid feature roadmap doesn't require inputs from sales, marketing or customer support.
- slt2021 3y agowhat makes you think that engineering-driven cultures ignore or don't ask for input from sales/marketing/customer support? that's the collaboration part. But the final decision over prioritization of feature X over feature Y and planning is done by engineers, not salesmen
- nine_zeros 3y ago> what makes you think that engineering-driven cultures ignore or don't ask for input from sales/marketing/customer support? The part where managers who don't partake in these efforts refuse to believe engineering estimates, engineering challenges and unknown unknowns and yet feel empowered to blame engineers in performance reviews.
- Xeamek 3y agoThat's all fine and dandy when you are small, and have a bunch of generalists that will throw themselves at any problem there is. But when you grow to the point of having a sizeable middle management layer that isolates engineers from one another, by enforcing strict area of interest for each team, you really shouldn't call yourself "engineering driven" anymore. And also, the more you scale, the more specialists you need. Specialists that aren't able, or just aren't willing to move from place to place rapidly
- schwap 3y agoUnless your client base is exclusively the same kind of engineer employed by said company, how could that possibly work well?
- slt2021 3y agoGoggle started it, I think it worked well for 1.9 trillion company as gogel