2.0
Aug 10, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
- Exposure to large-scale distributed systems and complex architecture - Opportunities to work with talented engineers (less of this lately as all the good ones are being driven out by incompetent managers) - High ownership and autonomy in some teams
Cons
- Increasing focus on delivering projects at all costs, leading to technical debt and unstable systems - Frequent leadership changes and shifting priorities without a clear long-term vision - Multiple overlapping projects competing internally rather than collaborating - Promotions often tied to quick wins, leaving long-term maintainability for others to fix - Recent gen AI push with tracking of tool usage, commit counts, etc. that appears to be a setup for upcoming layoffs
