Hopefully they have come to their senses and bring back a strong centralized Enterprise Architecture team. The lack of high level forward thinking vision is staggering. Most rank and file engineers can only think about the story in front of them, like it or not Architecture is needed. Historically the problem was they didn't attract the right talent because pay was too low, these new architects should be compensated like VPs.
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@eb and then some VP comes in and says, well we want to make sure it works, so lets just do a lift and shift of the old sh-t to the new sh-t, and the cycle continues
@ac PEs are there to draw up overly elaborate APIs based on what some id--t VP got out of Claude in a lame attempt to perform a power grab over some other slightly less elaborate APIs made by actual working engineers.
At this point it’s time to build a new tech team, pay them absolute top dollar, spend a year to rewrite EVERYTHING Nike actually needs, and throw away the rest. The new tech team can scalp whoever they want and then perform the mother of all layoffs after the migrations.
Or we can just keep doing the same sh-t with weak outsourced talent.
Wonder which one they’ll pick!
@dz I am a huge fan of CK. He really wanted to promote the practice and the platform strategy looked so good on paper. Unfortunately not many within EA truly bought into it. Now, CK is really kicking a-s at INTU (poor shareholders)
PE’s are supposed to handle this… but the PE’s I know are more like senior engineers. They can do individual tasks, but su-k at actually making everyone else more efficient.
I think a lot of them are only PE because they stayed through all the layoffs, and there was nobody else to fill the role.
We just need some competent engineers to fix the Byzantine access provisioning portal 🤷
Umm that kind of forward, enterprise thinking.. Isn't that what those overpaid PEs are supposed to do? On the note, what exactly are PE and DEs supposed to do? 🤣
@a3 🤣
an excellent suggestion, bengaluru has world class talent for enterprise architecture
@OP wonderful idea...totally with you on this. The old EA team under Vlad and then under CK kicked some serious a-s. Really unfortunate (for INTU shareholders) that CK decided to take his talents to the Bay Area.
The pendulum may swing back down the road but I don't see it happening any time soon. When the company is trying to cut costs and moving to a more manage service engagement with vendors...EA is the last thing they will put money on.