Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late
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Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late
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#3It’s not wise to be against the direction of an executive. You will be labeled combative, misaligned, or even uncooperative. It’s not worth it. Unless you have a strong political ally, it can be career suicide in your company.
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#4It’s not wise to be against the direction of an executive. You will be labeled combative, misaligned, or even uncooperative. It’s not worth it. Unless you have a strong political ally, it can be career suicide in your company.
It also really depends on whether you pick your battles or not. If an engineer complains every detail of a system then you get a "boy who cried wolf" effect at some point.
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#5When you, your friends, and your own children's livelihoods are at stake, the least you could do is make them clear their throat a bit as they try to buy time to answer your questions.
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#7LLM written slop
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#8This is one of the most frustrating things as being a software engineer: working on solutions that you feel that are not going to work. In some cases, I was the one saying that a particular solution was not going to work. It did not bring me any good.
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#9let's face it, executives want to be reassured, not get answers they don't want to hear
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#10So my Boss gets 50X my salary for "something something, having to take tough decisions and taking blame for failure"
But I have to push back?
Just end middle management and the issue from that article suddenly vanishes.