Sounds like not taking responsibility to me. And don’t get me wrong: I’ve had managers that made it impossible to do the actual development job well. But it’s

Sounds like not taking responsibility to me. And don’t get me wrong: I’ve had managers that made it impossible to do the actual development job well. But it’s still my responsibility to do my job well so I escalated that. Most times I caused changes to improve things. If not I quit the job. Personal accountability doesn’t just evaporate when someone else passes on bad orders. It’s not a fun position to be in but I think if engineers in general actually take responsibility for their own work, and confront management if that’s the source of issues, then that would improve things. If you let yourself be pushed around into doing subpar work for deadlines you’re just signalling that it’s ok.