This is my neighbor all the time.

Like dude, round up!

And this is why we do The Scotty Principle

That’s the “One minute manager” bullshit. It’s literally just popping in randomly to course correct.

It’s distracting as fuck as a engineer.

Totally agree. Drives me insane with drive-by status updates.

It’s this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/2rmir6/why_developers_hate_being_interrupted/

Absolutely! But it also depends on the size of the company. Small companies can absolutely benefit from PMs. I used to take freelance clients as a engineer, and never accepted a job without a PM who was willing to block out the noise.

In big companies though, I have a lot of disdain for PMs.

Many literally spend their hours being the middleman between actual stakeholders. I recently had a project where the PM was just forwarding emails from one department lead to another. They didn’t understand the product or cared to follow any processes. Then distracting my team for status updates so they can build reports in Excel, so they can feed it up the chain if something was done or not.

Fortunately, our retros are heavily engineer-centric and we can give harsh feedback/fire our PMs, which we have done successfully over the past few years.

This is funny on the internet but I met this guy at coding conferences.

Sony has a history of being terrible with security.

They literally built malware two decades ago.

Ubisoft did that too for a while, forcing Ubisoft logins. And they’re continuing to lose staff and shut down games.

I didn’t upvote or downvote.

Your opinion is valid. I think some parts could be reworked. I see what you’re saying, but how you’re saying it is what is rubbing people the wrong way.

Honestly, I like these opinion posts, because even if I’m a fanboy, I might agree with certain things.