Update: https://devrant.com/rants/4676421/...

I told you all. I fucking told you. Nobody listened to me.

Good people just leave.

This dude who I look upto and is kind of my mentor in the org and has spent a decade here, just resigned.

What the fuck!!!!

And with that, the attrition in product team is insanely high, to the point that it's scary.

My manager is not responsive and is often reactive instead of being proactive.

While the leadership is super excited about the product and everyone says they are hiring more and more people in product team, the design says our product is not a priority for them and we are just left with one design resource.

I was conversing with my colleague and we both are super scared that they shouldn't scrap the product and fire us.

This seems unlikely with all the logical calculations that we did but in a capitalist system we have to be prepared for anything.

I am shit scared right now because there is no clarity on what could happen next.

On the other hand, my skip level manager is taking a lot of interest in my work and is working very closely with me and taking more ownership of our product than my direct manager.

Everyone says our product is a top priority and tech is super agressive about it.

One thing that could happen is my manager leaving and not telling us about it upfront.

In which we would just report to our skip level manager and growth chances would be even better.

But at this stage, this seems super scary to me.