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I've been to an all-hands post-mortem where the director of engineering had to say "anyone with an opinion besides [name of director of engineering] sucks"?

Said director of engineering literally watched us blow milestone after milestone yet somehow the knowledge we were going to miss our commits (and not by a little) never propagated upwards to the ceo. Either that or the ceo didn't want to listen; it could be any combination of those two.

Either way, the engineers were pissed.

Incredibly poor milestone management and a failure to triage didn't end up in our fucking learnings document somehow.




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