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Technical lead

Are junior developers will be blamed everytime for even a business mistake..

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Development Blame

Performance Engineer

Development Blame- Grapevine

Suppose I(intern) am preparing a excel sheet (no numbers)
It's been quality check by mentor 
Again its been quality check by lead person

Again its been a final verification done by manager 

But if the fault is found .. it's my error ??

Who's fault it is??

Software Developer

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I feel like startups have unreasonable and unnecessary self induced pressure at times. I am working as an APM at a gate management startup and all I feel is pressurized even though the release gets delayed whether due to faulty implementation or dev or qa or requirement change from business side which the PM has no control over. While all this is happening you are left to wonder where did you lack? Was it at Product Management or at Project Management because clearly both are not happening properly.

It's weird how so little at times is in your control and yet how all the blame you have to take because primarily it was your job to think it all through.

PMing through and through

Associate Product Manager

Welcome to Confessions's Private Community

Lately it's been really hard trying to cope up with derogatory comments and people trying to pull you down.

I build/refactored some of our codebase and things go south in terms of performance at few places. 
I realised the mistake and fixed the performance bottlenecks that happened because of me in least time possible. 

But people still look down on me on and manager keeps passing hurtful comments about the incident every now and then.

Moreover there's worse happening fellow people start blaming you for the performance of code you haven't even touched. You are just utilizing some function in your codebase written by some other person.

I don't know how to handle all this and what should I do to avoid this? 
Mistakes happen, bugs go on prod, things can break but as far as once everything stabilise, we should move on.

How do you guys deal with Office politics.

Software Engineer

1. High pressure on timelines- business and top management shits on you if you don’t deliver on time
2. No power to control the outcome- engineers don’t listen to you neither does the design or analytics team, you end up begging for resources
3. Too much politics- business or a senior PM can steal your bandwidth anytime
4. Lack of recognition- if it succeeds business did it, if it fails it is product teams fault (engg never gets blamed for shit)

I believe Product Management is a really toxic role

Product Manager

With my small experiences in the past, I haven't seen a good Startup with WLB for SDEs (0-3)yoe.

I want to know whether you work in a startup where there's WLB.

I understand that more work means more learning but I do not agree with this every time. There are way more SDEs working in very very small startups who have humongous learning with a pinch of money they are being paid.


For me WLB means enough time to relax and spend time with my loved ones and also less mental stress.

I have observed that the Leads/Managers will give any features no matter how complex they are, need to be built with 0 to no help specially for SDE-1 people.

And later they are blamed and scolded or they're put in PIP and ultimately thrown out.

What is your experience?

Are there any startups where WLB exists or it's just all about money and doesn't matter even if the employee is no more?

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

I love to read about tech and how startups evolved. Have spent a lot of time figuring out how the good product companies in the US got built: Google, FB, Instagram, Snap, Pinterest etc. etc. 

One thing stands out: A lot of these started out as just projects, and not a real startup. 
Instagram was just an idea to make photo filtering better. Reddit was just a project around making a cooler internet.

They set off as projects, and got some traction before becoming funded startups. Because they had devs in the founding team, who were always doing projects as side hustles. 

This wasn't the time when SDE salaries were so pumped up, they didn't want to just become good devs, they probably wanted to solve real problems. 

My takeaway: 

Maybe Engineers shouldn’t be too incentivised to just code. They should be incentivised to think business. 
Thats how FB, Google, Insta etc happened as companies.

In India, high pay endears engineers to stick to coding, do less business thinking.
That’s why we don’t see too many coders posting their side projects on X, Reddit, GV within India. Maybe there just aren’t enough. 

Have just been thinking about this. 

Open to thoughts from the community - maybe my view is limited. Would love to hear.

Why Silicon Valley became Silicon Valley, and why that will likely not happen in India

Corporate Strategist

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Will most of the people will lose their job because of age factor? Younger workforce will throw out most of the 40s workers?

Job at the age 40

Consultant

So During our scum calls with client my manager  gives update for whole team himself and doesnt let us update on the task which we have worked on ourself . Mf just grabs all the glory  in pursuit for good feedback from client side   meanwhile he does nothing technical  and during internal meeting he says you guys should speak more with client  and ALSO he ask for everyone's update on task before scrum and then pokes why is it not done even on task whose estimated completion  date/time is far away. 

So annoying and frustating .

Just a rant from your average software dev . 
Do give any solution you might have . 🙂
Thanks for reading.

Down bad manager ! Glory hunter.

Data engineer

Would you rather be an Engineer learning how to Product or a Product Manager learning how to Engineer?

I'm working as an APM at a startup for about a year now. I work with another guy who happens to be my senior, PM and both of us report to the director.

Of late, my senior, i.e., the PM has been undermining my work when the two of us are working together, subtly taunting me that what I've done is pretty easy and non impactful business wise. He also disregards the decisions made by me, modifies the PRDs discovered and written by me and mails them as his own.

Eventually, he ends up adding me to the walkthrough calls because I had discovered the features but then concludes everything such that he had owned everything end to end.

Recently, both of us were given a documentation to be done by our manager, i.e., the director. I had completed almost 70% of that document, but in our call with the director he presented it saying that he had written that document and I had made a few changes to it.

This undermines my work and visibility of my capabilities. I don't know how to tackle this situation, my manager is usually busy and leaves it upto this PM to allocate work, which he unfairly uses.

How do I talk to my manager about this. I'm fairly new to corporate, just graduated last year and don't know how to handle all this.

But this thing has been bothering me lately, really looking forward to any advise my fellow grapeviners may have.

Senior taking credit for my work

There has been a huge influx of posts dissing roles like Product, Marketing, HR etc. by Techies.

Every other post, or comment is made by them undermining the value of other depts and these cuties think business runs just by their sub-par code.

I understand that their delusion stems from the fact they get paid huge salaries by loss making companies. Which is bound to crash sooner or later. 

Rant over.

Why are Techies so delusional?

Founder

What things and technologies one should know and different aspects of the frontend to become a senior developer. Let's go with the React ecosystem.

What is the difference between a Junior and a Senior Frontend developer?

I have no idea how to inform this to my lead that I have deleted the api gateway in production accidentally and even though I have recreated it , the application needs to be published to stores again with this new api urls , I'm more scared of the customer as well , I am not able to calm down thinking of all the possible consequences it's gonna have from here on , I'm so fucked up really

Messed up in production system

Just wanted to know people's experiences who have made this switch or even just general things i or anyone should know. 
Apart from the obvious change in work, Is the salary structure the same? Etc.

And just for context in my specific case I'm almost closing in on 4 years of experience in software development.

Switching from software developer to PM

I have 1 YOE and I often miss my deadlines which causes spillover. The tasks assigned to me get completed by me, and I face very little difficulty in it.

Also, when someone asks me about a different part of the codebase, I am unable to answer confidently. I tried reading documentation, but couldn't figure out much. But still I do read the documentation sometimes.

I identified distractions and removed them, mostly my phone. But recently I noticed that I still miss deadlines, but the reason for that is I take a long time to figure out the issue/feature that I am going to develop.

So far I have tried
- Removing distractions, by uninstalling SM apps 
- White boarding the issue beforehand
- Communicating better and early.

Things I am going to try
- Use debugger instead of logs(I know, should have done before)
- Document before implementing (Didn't know, that this was a standard practice before)

How to stop being a slow developer

So I will graduate in may. I have received a ppo from the company I interned at. They gave sde 1 as title. But mostly on internship all they make me do is resolve bugs. How common is this for a software engineer? Before taking an internship I was excited that I would get to develop new features.

Is it common for a sde to resolve bugs most of the time?

Why do they behave like when they were in junior positions they never faulted or did all the work within working hours. As if they were so perfect that there could be 0 faults against them.

People in senior posts

Business operations

This is going to be a broader post directed to a lot of stakeholders, a team will be mostly comprising of FE, BE, product.

When the team misses the deadline because of multiple reasons(Evolving product requirement docs), BE -- Wrong estimations or didn't account for changes like the code has to support landing on moon and taking those photographs. FE -- just assumed simple CRUD operation, didn't account for complexity and multiple API call involved. 

How is it dealt with? who takes the fall and how the situation generally gets salvaged? I think this happens quite often.

Does it matters meeting deadlines, when everyone is at fault

Computer operator

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I work at this desi startup, and this other day my CTO invites me to a call in late hours while he was testing a new feature he found some issues in part of the code that an ex employee wrote.
I told him I don’t have idea about this specific thing as the ex employee built that out(he was fairly old there and I’m quite new in the company) so I don’t know why he built it that way and if certified functionality exists.
Than he started rambling that I’m Sr. Engg here so I should think about things end to end(the ex emp was also Sr.) and said that it was “concerning” that rather than knowing something I answered with I don’t know as he built that part.
Some more context - I was given this feature in haphazard manner in small parts and later I become the one who worked majorly on it but the initial setup and some flow of the code was written by the ex emp.

Btw from my colleagues I got to know that he gives bad reviews to mostly everyone and expects everyone to work extra hard though this is the 2nd time he’s given me a concerning review.

What would you do if you were in my case?
Should I retaliate by confronting him or let it be because he has a habit of doing this.

CTO gives bad review to everyone

If absolutely all software engineers obsess over business metrics rather than technology it would be net-net great outcome for the ecosystem as well for the individual economically, socially.

I find it childish when a CTO/Architect/Principal engineer obsess over code & infra architecture, low level/high level design, scalability.

Outcome:
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I want engineers at all seniority levels and all disciplines must only care about biz metrics. Product management should cease to exist. 

Everything tech will fall into place. 

If you were the product manager of the "bangalore", how would you approach this?

One approach i thought -
---
To get into Bangalore tech ecosystem you must need a certification from a institution (For ex: Tech School), absolutely mandatory from this school irrespective of your college background. 

This tech school will allow everyone to enter, online lectures, teach customer empathy, research, industry standard tech, product management, design. Aim is to set correct mindset for growth and first principle thinking. 

This will make college background irrelevant.

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