I was with an ad-tech company that woo'd me by saying they were growing after a recent acquisition. It was nice to be around a large group of developers sharing ideas, until a new exec started. Upon hiring, this exec, claiming to be from a CI background, threw shade on all our internal attempts to build any utility software citing "it would be cheaper in the long run to get [insert package]." I soon found that all the work several of us put in design and implementation was scraped to negotiate a contract with and then the adoption of a third party API.
The solution was far less than projected and the time to integrate pulled resources from further development of client facing apps. Deadlines pushed and frustrations, I spoke to my manager, who spoke to theirs. A sprint later, there were lay offs in engineering, practically everyone who voiced opposition and blame on this exec.
AFAIK, the exec is still there, but we have moved on.
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I was with an ad-tech company that woo'd me by saying they were growing after a recent acquisition. It was nice to be around a large group of developers sharing ideas, until a new exec started. Upon hiring, this exec, claiming to be from a CI background, threw shade on all our internal attempts to build any utility software citing "it would be cheaper in the long run to get [insert package]." I soon found that all the work several of us put in design and implementation was scraped to negotiate a contract with and then the adoption of a third party API.
The solution was far less than projected and the time to integrate pulled resources from further development of client facing apps. Deadlines pushed and frustrations, I spoke to my manager, who spoke to theirs. A sprint later, there were lay offs in engineering, practically everyone who voiced opposition and blame on this exec.
AFAIK, the exec is still there, but we have moved on.