Incompetence...incompetence everywhere
Have any of you been at an organization and as you get further entrenched, you start to realize you are surrounded by complacency and status quo? This organization is astonishingly incompetent yet somehow has survived while tenured siloers erode any passion the newcomers bring to the table. It’s a comic reality of tech debt, lack of accountability and anti-patterns.
It happens in any large org. At FANG they don’t care because of deep warchests. But when you’re trying to ship it’s like gambling with a used heroin needle. Luckily customers don’t know any better and will continue to come back, even if there are major league bugs.
Is any company not like this? While you are at it you should also add the newcomers who know how to game the system and upon hire continue to fly under the radar and produce nothing before jumping to their next gig. We've all read Dilbert, this is office life, get used to it.
Small companies that aren’t surfing on VC money aren’t like this. They can’t afford it. Otherwise, the bigger and older a company is, the more rot you’ll find inside. Now imagine what’s it like at Apple, one of the oldest and biggest tech companies out there...
Yeah you only won't see this at a small startup but given downsides I would rather large org.
Could you expand on downsides? I loved my time in startup actually, and only switched because it got acquired.
Tell me about it. All the time! Teams are so amazingly dysfunctional. Its beyond belief. Firing middle management would be a huge favor to the org.