Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself. "Hurry, we need the design by Monday." Work most of Sunday. "Never mind. We've changed the roadmap/project. We don't need that." (Rinse, repeat.) Review time: "You didn't deliver much this quarter."

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A lot of this applies to all sorts of companies when it's the role of coders.

I think there's something about the bosses not understanding the increasing complexity of the shit they're asking for. Not being able to see the 10 projects you roll out a week now are 20x more complicated than the 5 a week you'd complete a year prior, and infinitely more complicated than the ones from the year before that, even though you're only making $5k more a year.