Discussion on: What gives you the most anxiety?

[Matthieu Cneude]

1. Not well estimated deadlines (which are 97% of the total of deadlines).
2. Functionalities which are possibly useless for the end user.
3. Working on a product which doesn't provide anything new / better than the concurrence, just trying to catch on what already exists.
4. Seeing bad decisions taken, being pretty explicit about them with good arguments, not being listened to 'cause I'm only a worker "producing" software, dealing with the bad consequences.
5. Micro-management and mistrust.
6. A company which sells a company culture totally different of the reality.
7. Being "Agile" meaning using a bunch of tools.
8. A startup doing everything like Google 'cause you know, it's Google.
9. Using micro-services as a magical spell, ending with distributed chaos.
10. Working in a waterfall environment which does Scrum.
11. Working in an ego driven environment where other services (or users) are stupid because developers are the best.
12. Not understanding that soft skills are more important than pure technical knowledge when you're working in a team.
13. Trying to fit somebody in a team to see if the candidate think like everybody else, and therefore killing diversity and collective intelligence.
14. Interviews with: random questions (a developer should know everything? Really?) which have nothing to do with the daily work, looking at the knowledge of somebody at time T even if this knowledge is obsolete in two months and, at the same time, not verifying if the person is able to adapt.
15. Having interviews where nobody bothered looking at the candidate's Github code, blog, or portfolio.

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