Boss: agrees to unreasonable deadlines.
Team: misses deadlines because they're unreasonable.
Boss: "you just don't understand how important the deadline is"

He legit thinks the only reason we fall behind, is because we dont care. Not because we're doing stuff that hasn't been done before, and need to tech ourselves everything as we go.

Also, he's not a programmer, he's a salesman... and he runs the company like one too.

Anyone looking to hire a VR/AR developer?

it should be fucking illegal to be the CEO without ever programming

@erandria I don’t think so. Being a good CEO/manager and being a good developer require different skills.

As a manager you have to make decisions about deadlines. But those should be informed decisions, understanding the different factors that play into the decision.

As a developer it is part of your job to provide your manager with the information they need to make those decisions. And then do the work according to those decisions.

So if both parties work well together, great things can be achieved. But if one side fails in their job, everybody fails.

@korrat definitely agree in a big part.
In fact, I've heard of terrible CEOs but excellent programmers too.

I dunno, I see so many detached CEOs that have very little idea about tech in general and unreal expectations from programmers...

but what you're saying is making more sense to me...

@erandria let's say that should be not legal to not have a CTO with the right to refuse CEO proposals/orders

Sales people should never manage anyone except other sales people.