[ragnarsson]

I felt disillusioned 4-5 months in my first job after college. I could see the project I was working would take a long time to create something of value (3-5 years) but we were always put under pressure to show some stupid demos to management every quarter.

So at the end we were just doing these demos and not working on actual things that we needed to do. The project was important, if implemented successfully it would cut jobs of ~60 people in the organization. So management kept on adding more people until they realized that there was no real progress and they dumped the project and we got reassigned.

I realized that 1 year of my work as well as ~15 other engineers just went to waste.