The Enterprise Experience
7 days ago
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- The author reflects on their one-year anniversary at $ENTERPRISE, transitioning from startups to a large enterprise.
- Highlights the inefficiencies and bureaucratic challenges in large organizations, such as difficulty finding responsible parties for tools and projects.
- Criticizes the financial waste and lack of accountability in enterprise settings, contrasting it with the efficiency of smaller companies.
- Discusses the surreal and often absurd workplace dynamics, including incompetent hires and lack of performance-related firings.
- Explores the different forms of urgency in enterprise work, distinguishing between real and fabricated crises.
- Comments on the superficial approach to software security, where metrics often overshadow actual risk assessment.
- Shares observations on the repetitive mistakes in leadership and the lack of learning from past failures.
- Describes the inconsistent application of engineering standards across different departments or 'empires' within the organization.
- Despite the criticisms, the author expresses enjoyment in their role and lists positive aspects of their experience.
- Invites readers to reach out via email for further discussion.