throwaway98988

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   by throwaway98988 8y ago

   Apologies for the wrong thread title. I meant "Have you ever". Sometimes I read stuff over and over and over and still reads fine but is wrong. Oh well, sorry.
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   by throwaway98988 8y ago

   That's exactly one of the problems that I have. Somehow people are okay with things taking 2 years rather than 3 months though so there isn't a lot of pressure to change. I'm at a point where I don't know if sticking aro
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   by throwaway98988 8y ago

   There's a certain disdain for metrics so we're not tracking a lot of things proactively (think latency/rate, for example). That means every new change is based on a feeling of how it'll impact the systems. We also don&#x
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   by throwaway98988 8y ago

   Unfortunately, I have to agree. I've been hired into an informal "staff/principal" role for my part of the organization and it's simply impossible to work. The other staff/principal engineers I see here are exa
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   by throwaway98988 8y ago

   What should a staff/principal engineer do if company culture is against change? Posted a related question here, if that's a better place to discuss this question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19130451
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   Ask HN: How you ever quit because the engineering culture is too messed up?

   23 points by throwaway98988 8y ago|22 comments