Optimizing the queries and backend

OR

Hiding the waiting time with funny animations and weird preloading techniques

Catch: let marketing decide

Marketing: Can we show ads during preload?

Dev: Uhm.. I guess so?

Marketing: Okay... how long can you make the load times?

Dev: Well technically there is no limit...

Marketing: Great! We"ll come back to you.

*hires a consultant to find out how much waiting time users will tolerate before losing interest*

@DirtEffect Ha! I love the hire marketing consultant angle, very appropriate - well done!

Whatever you do, DO NOT LET MARKETING DECIDE anything technical!

I can even beg if that'll change your mind.

@DirtEffect I had a friend that had that exact same experience.

They were even asked to kill all the lazy loading on the page so that marketing could show video ads too. That at the expense of creating new page designs for the ad "pages".
The developer was sane enough to reject that strongly at least.

@fiftyhz Thanks :) glad you liked it

@shine This is just horrible.

Just imagine you went into that field because you loved technology and wanted to create good software. And then some Marketing asshole forces you to design your product in such an obscenely bad way.

@DirtEffect

> "And then some Marketing asshole forces you to design your product in such an obscenely bad way."

Aaaaaaand this is the primary reason why I have no job :^)

@FinlayDaG33k Oh shit! What happened?

@DirtEffect Well... I got laid of in the end of 2019 for a variety of (rather irrelevant) reasons.

However, since a lot of companies rather have me design websites based on what would give them the most revenue according to the marketing departments, I haven't found a job that would suit my own views and opinions (Optimization + UX > eye-candy > revenue).

@FinlayDaG33k Oh man that sucks.. Sad to hear. Hope you find something that fits you.

A friend of mine (works in electronics, not programming) just quit his job for similar reasons. He managed to do the job he had in this terrible company for several years by making it his life mission to troll the M&Ms (marketing and middle-management).

Now he concluded that anything anywhere is better than this crap and left.