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> "We don't really know what this is good for, but spent a lot of money and time making it and are under intense pressure to announce new things right now. If you can figure something out, we need you to help us."

Having worked at my fair share of big tech companies (while preferring to stay in smaller startups), in so many of these tech announcement I can feel the pressure the PM had from leadership, and hear the quiet cries of the one to two experience engineers on the team arguing sprint after sprint that "this doesn't make sense!"




> the quiet cries of the one to two experienced engineers on the team arguing sprint after sprint that "this doesn't make sense!"

“I have five years of Cassandra experience—and I don’t mean the db”




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