Thought I joined a fast-paced startup. Turns out I joined a sluggish, passive-aggressive daycare for broken processes.

Company: Let’s go all-in on AWS Me: Cool, who’s leading it? Company: Someone who thinks S3 is a Star Wars droid Me: 👍

Love when management hires new employees but refuses to buy the software they need to do their job. Such innovation. Much leadership.

Raised serious DB inconsistencies. First response: "Yeah, you're right... but I'm not gonna be the one fixing it." Love this proactive team spirit.

Management wants merges to happen directly to master. But testing doesn't happen until after a merge. => master is full of issues and needs countless reverts and fixes constantly just to be able to release. Couldn't make it harder even if I tried

6 weeks ago the team wanted to use camelCase, snake_case, and kebab-case. Each for different situations in the same code base. They didn't listen when I told them it was a bad idea. They figured it out now, we are switching everything because it was a huge pain. Nice.

Support needs to communicate a lot Information gets lost in mails, causes extra work and delays Management: $7/month is too expensive to add them to Slack where all communication is streamlined 🤡

When I'm talking to the AI I'm always a genius

We use Slack and our manager is incapable of using threads. Each discussion spans multiple message threads since engineers discuss in the thread and the manager starts a new thread with every message 🤣

Manager: I suggest to restart the pods, that helped the last few times. Yes, what it also does is never solving the root cause of the problem

Every daily for over a month the architect never knows what he did Pretty interesting how people can just do nothing and it's fine