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📣 virologist

I think these FAANG companies should downsize "new features department"


Recently I am seeing more and more unnecessary product features from these big companies (especially Microsoft & co) that keep shipping annoying and often unnecessary features. I sometimes wonder if they even use these features (I will give you a recent example, an update to an email client added a default emoji for a work email reply, when I checked latest updates to the version emoji was on the list!).

I feel that this is because the employees at these already established companies need to keep shipping features to stay at the job. Or maybe need to downsize on SE and hire more DevOps.

Are SE in these already established companies required to keep shipping features continually?

What is your opinion on this?

  👤 beardyw Accepted Answer ✓
The problem is that management is done by human beings who, by their nature, find it difficult to think rationally, and even if they do, their manager doesn't.

I ran a one man side project for 10 years. I made money from it, but after 2 years I came to realise my brilliant innovations weren't going to make any difference except to give me support headaches. I stopped making any change which wasn't necessary, and got on with my life.

👤 trinovantes
Your resume would get pretty barren if all you do is fixing bugs. Shipping features/products is how you get promoted.