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Florian Rand • Edited

This is my personal opinion based on some of my past experiences, so please take that into consideration.

We have meetings to discuss priorities with the rest of the company occasionally, but they always seem confused about what we’re working on or why we’re working on it.

We do definitely try to prioritize things that provide value to the customers (leading to more 💰) but that’s hard to determine for the engineers who never interact with the customers 😰.

How big is the company you work with? I've seen similar pattern in companies that went from small to a reasonable size in a short period of time, but the usual workflow and communication channels are very similar to when they were a small company.

Anyway, I would give it some time and wait to see how things works there. I've learned to observe first, act later. There is always a reason about why things are the way they are. Are they opened to improvement? or Will you hit a wasps nest with your suggestions?

Sometimes is wiser wait and see, and if you don't like it, jump out of the boat, than trying to improve something that doesn't want to be improved :P