Working in a large corporation is a place where you get paid for

https://sh.itjust.works/post/47451790

  • Spending a day or more every quarter/half sorting out your roadmap, prioritising stakeholder needs, tech debt and enhancements
  • Someone from senior leadership decides they want XYZ and blows the roadmap up
  • Much wanted feature (X) or issue gets pushed back
  • CEO makes a comment in a company wide meeting how they can’t understand why we simply can’t do X thing yet
  • Everyone in Product scrambles to make X a priority
  • Go to step 1
It’s funny that people claim ownership of companies by individuals (capitalism) is so efficient when there are extreme and obvious problems when the distant private equity board needs an entire department to tell them what the company does and how well every few months, compared to y’know, ownership by people who work there and would know how well the company (and their part of it) is doing just by actually being remotely involved.