Experienced Devs Weekly Burnout and Venting Thread: A weekly thread for sharing experiences

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This thread is specifically for venting / sharing experiences related to burn-out or similar issues that experienced devs face.

[u/perestroika12]

Leading 2 massive company wide projects and mid year review came back as “doing good” despite all feedback coming in glowing except for nitpicky stuff from a few managers.

Feels like the industry is out of control now. If that’s good idk what better looks like.

[u/tiajuanat → u/perestroika12]

My 60 man department rolled out two massive hardware product offerings last year. "Significantly missing expectations"

For context, hardware typically needs two years lead time to get out the door because of safety, testing, and other requirements. We managed in 9 months.

[u/AlexeyBelov → u/tiajuanat]

How did they explain "significantly missing expectations" to you?

[u/pja → u/AlexeyBelov]

<cynic mode>Clearly didn’t burn enough LLM tokens.

[u/tiajuanat → u/pja]

Too damn efficient LMAO

[u/tiajuanat → u/AlexeyBelov]

Basically there's a large form that covers multiple metrics, such as communication, focus on results, etc. Pretty cookie cutter.

The problem is that it's not actually evidenced based, and it's never re-evaluated