Surprisingly, for me, it's not the layoffs. It's having to deal with a micromanaging boss who has no idea how to do my job but still thinks he can do it better. It's driving me insane. I often have to do things in a suboptimal way because of his directives and of course, it will be considered my fault down the line.
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The Sh-t Tech Stack and Tools. Below Average Junior Engineers, Managers and Architects. A few really good Senior Developers are managing everything.
My manager is the same Zero Technical or People Skills. The Director who hored her got sent home last october. Now my entire team is bearing the burden. All she does is set up meetings late in the evenings and asks for updates early the next morning. We are working between teams finding solutions, managing build pipelines and trying to implement good programming practices. She is out of touch and has hour long bullsh-t meetings every week. Some folks on my team have complained about her micro-managing so now she randomly has 1:1s almost every day. We hope either she makes the layoff cut or us eitherway no one in the team is happy.
For me it is the apparent fact that there is zero desire and/or effort from EC to re-establish trust with the employees. They will tout little things here and there and have a meltdown b/c employees are demanding "not appreciative" b/c they want real change. It wasn't like that in the past (or maybe it was and I was naive?) All I know is every time I go into the office it feels like I'm walking into a house of abusive parents. "Do as I say not as I do (as Walt works from home)", "Employees should be seen and not heard (a$$es in seats and shut up)", "keep crying and I'll give you something to really cry about (5 day RTO)." This is how it feels and I have worked for super a$$holes in the past at other firms, but it wasn't the philosophy of the entire executive team/firm — you just had an a$$hole manager. And so help me the f'n cliques - little cliques of folks who worked together at x firm and one person got MD role and brought everyone over — that has to f'n stop.
A lot of PL's are a joke. They became PL's because they don't want to code or get their hands dirty. Personally I like PL's who actually play their role right. By this I mean focusing on the social aspect of tech. On average PL's are not tech savvy so they should instead work on the social aspect. Like building trust with their team, figuring out how they can help remove blockers with their social abilities, and puting individuals in places where they will succeed. PL's who try to dictate how code should be written should be removed because they moved into that role so they don't have to code. Trust in the capabilities of your team and back them up don't hold them back which a lot of PL's do for d-mb reasons.
+ 1 on everything is a crisis. And can we vote now to stop with the "firedrill" b.s.
Plus one for the “everything is a crises” mentioned below.
Clearly you want this site to run out of storage.
Wasted money on consultants, chasing the next shiny object, failure to complete any major objective, everything as crisis, PLs who are beyond incompetent and so focused on managing up that they lose sight of everything, pettiness, bullying…
I can honestly say that my current management stack is the worst I’ve had in a nearly 30 year career. That includes managers who hit on me, se-----y harassed, embezzled, had affairs with vendors, workplaces with mold and countless other challenges.
Forced socialization, sharing of personal life, etc…
What the OP said + working for some of the most unnecessarily rude people of my career. I've heard of something called "Schwab Nice", is it ironic?