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retiredcoder | 6 years ago

It can get worse, when the managers are the ones who wrote the legacy and still are actively acting as individual contributors themselves instead of empowering their own people

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Roritharr|6 years ago

How about we add financial pressure to the mix that doesn't allow you to invest in anything so you're forced to add even more weirdness to the pile of crap instead.

retiredcoder|6 years ago

True, specially when management is much more invested financially in the company than rank and file engineers. That happens a lot in European startup scene from my observations (as equity comp here isn’t that appealing for most of ICs)