> More than once I have seen a peer or a whole engineering department of brilliant people going down a technical rabbit hole for weeks for intellectual satisfaction, where instead I will just take a step back, walk to the manager and try to work a different take for a solution that can be implemented in a few hours/days even if the business goal is slightly moved.
What do you do when management doesn't want to move their business goal? Now you look like you're incompetent and incapable of just doing the damn thing they asked for.
Asking rhetorically, not as criticism, but because I've been there and it fucking sucks when the people who aren't working on the problem think they might have a better understanding of the big picture than they do.
What do you do when management doesn't want to move their business goal? Now you look like you're incompetent and incapable of just doing the damn thing they asked for.
Asking rhetorically, not as criticism, but because I've been there and it fucking sucks when the people who aren't working on the problem think they might have a better understanding of the big picture than they do.