Knowing when to shut up is great advice and knowing how the wind is blowing. If I know their is an edict from the top down to be an “AI first company”, no matter how much I disagree with an initiative that comes from on high, I’m going to shut up and be all in.
“The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.”
The last time I worked for a product company was as at a startup where I was the second technical hire by the then new CTO who was building up the technical staff internally. The founders bootstrapped the company through an outside consulting company.
There I had a relationship with the CTO where I could just say “that’s a really bad idea” and he would listen.
Fast forward a few years and I was working for a shitty consulting company, I kept my head down for a year, let them fail after I was sure they wouldn’t listen to me and started interviewing and only stayed a year.
My career progression isn’t dependent on the job I have at the moment.
“The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.”
The last time I worked for a product company was as at a startup where I was the second technical hire by the then new CTO who was building up the technical staff internally. The founders bootstrapped the company through an outside consulting company.
There I had a relationship with the CTO where I could just say “that’s a really bad idea” and he would listen.
Fast forward a few years and I was working for a shitty consulting company, I kept my head down for a year, let them fail after I was sure they wouldn’t listen to me and started interviewing and only stayed a year.
My career progression isn’t dependent on the job I have at the moment.