Ask HN: What to do as a software engineer that cares more about what to build?

Re:Ask HN: What to do as a software engineer that cares more... by oncethere on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @03:34PM (#27439740)

Thanks for the pointer to the article!

Yeah, that's a good point. The PM is sometimes pretty constrained by the business. Maybe it's just a grass is greener thing. Have you been anywhere where the eng team had some say in what they make?

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Re:Ask HN: What to do as a software engineer that cares more... by Twixes on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @03:02PM (#27451731)

Currently working at PostHog, an engineering-centric product-led startup (20-odd people currently) all our engineering teams fully own an aspect of the product and prioritize themselves. Obviously there's company-wide context and company leadership has crucial input, but since hiring optimizes for maximally self-sufficient people, there's no PMs. I'm a big fan of that as an engineer

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Re:Ask HN: What to do as a software engineer that cares more... by markus_zhang on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @03:41PM (#27439814)

Sorry I have never seen one such place. I mean for sure in each place I stayed (custom service center, gaming and one I can't say), the eng team has SOME say in the product, but most od the time it's just small details of the design or something similar that they can argue about. Actually data analysts have a lot more say because they have the data to back them up when they want to make recommendations.

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