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.

I thought of posting this as a comment to @12bit float' post, but then decided it better goes out as a post by itself.

https://devrant.com/rants/5291843/...

My second employer, where I am on my last week of notice currently, is building a no code/low code tool.

Since this was my first job switch, I was in a dreamy phase and was super excited about this whole space. I indeed got to learn like crazy.

Upon joining, I realised that an ideal user persona for this product was a developer. Wow! No code tool for developer. sO cOoL...

We started building it and as obvious as it could get, the initial goal was adoption because we were still at top of the funnel.

We launched an alpha release shortly followed by a beta.

Nobody used it. Tech XLT/LT kept pushing product and design team to run a feature factory so that their teams can use this tool.

The culture set by those two leaders was toxic as fuck.

Now, I decided to do some research and some more product discovery to understand why folks were not using it. Mind you, we were not allowed to do any research and were forced to build based on opinions of those two monkeys.

Turns out that the devs were really happy with their existing tools and our tool was another tool being forcefully added into their toolbox by the said XLT/LT.

Not only that, even if they decide to use our tool, out of pressure, they still cannot because the product was missing key capabilities like audit control and promotion from one environment to another.

Building those would essentially mean reinventing Github aka version control and Spinnaker aka CI/CD pipeline.

My new boss (I got 3 managers in 4 months because of high attrition across levels due to the toxic culture), thinks that tech XLT/LT are doing great and we all suck as a product and design team.

He started driving things his own way without even understanding or settling down for first 90 days.

Lol, I put in my resignation got out of that mess.

So agreeing to what our boy said here, no code tools are a complete waste, especially for a developer, and even as a non tech person, I prefer keyboard over mouse.