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Re:Forced every engineer to take sales calls.They rewrote ou... by vdqtp3 on Thursday August 21, 2025 @03:49PM (#44977220)
At my last job I worked in professional services, and after reporting multiple issues over and over and over through the normal process I finally wormed my way into a friendship with engineering and product leadership. A conversation with someone they trust was THE ONLY WAY to get them to take seriously a Jira report from the field saying "this is annoying/broken at every customer. Yes there is a workaround, but can we get it fixed?"

Product at every company I've worked for only ever cared about prioritizing shiny new features or bugs that have people screaming at them.

Re:Forced every engineer to take sales calls.They rewrote ou... by octo888 on Thursday August 21, 2025 @07:21PM (#44979349)
This is spot on and echoes my experience (seeing it from the dev side)