If you work at a company like this where leadership does not understand the engineering, the value, or the consequences of their reports but only want to talk about it at review-time, you are not in a healthy environment with an actual leadership.
And you will feel the toxicity created by this kind of poor leadership by way of constant blame games, misalignments, and unnecessary stress over garbage.
Feels like my current place. To use OP's language: if you have shipped and leadership knows about it, but also does not care, you have not shipped. Unfortunately it turns out there's no way to make them care, in my case.
That is, however, true of almost all of the big players. If you want the security of the big paycheque every month, you do the deal with the devil, so the speak.
> That is, however, true of almost all of the big players. If you want the security of the big paycheque every month, you do the deal with the devil, so the speak.
And you will pay the cost of it with time, physical and mental health, and career longevity.
Ultimately you are signing up to be servants and servants are not valued within or outside the organization.
And you will feel the toxicity created by this kind of poor leadership by way of constant blame games, misalignments, and unnecessary stress over garbage.