Why this place is full of 0.0001x engineers and useless things?

I work in new team, we deliver "nothing" because PO talk like he is on dr-gs changing his mind every second week. Moreover he is micromanaging us not to do stuff, it feels like he don`t want us to deliver this and prove idea was ....

I was bored last sprint so I did more than a task which would my high school kid do to experiment. As a result I got to listen to a "talk" for "doing wrong stuff". At same time we have a guy in team which delivers ZERO and its fine.

I am starting to hate software dev as I am not even allowed to do anything any more. Like I wanted to be engineer to build things, have solutions to help some with something, not to sit 50% of my day on meetings and deal with architects which cant even write hello world and their git is totally EMPTY, but they can say AI AI AI... and agentic AI.

I did not receive a single valuable training in the "research" field we are doing, but my training backlog is full of useless trainings about nothing like that AI joke we got inspire shout out recently :D.

I am starting to think to quit without other job, because most I hate in my career is when I can't do work because it make others look bad.

#Engineering #Micromanagement #BadLeadership #Morale

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Your comment on training hit home with me. Management would wave a magic wand and declare you're an expert in this field or that field. No prior experience no training, you're now the expert. This ranged from EMI to VMWare to signal integrity to shock and vibe. I went to training and management called me out of training to work on what I was learning. Missed the class but fixed the problem. Clueless on what it takes to become an expert.

You should look for a new job. We used to get work done but since we have talentless leadership and they’re pushing out the good people you get whatever this is.

Dell is a place where politics rule, if you can create PowerPoints and present them you’re good. Otherwise actually deliver things? No they don’t want that.

@cy data protection is absolutely the worst product that Dell has. Its leadership is embarrassingly unqualified and they’re interested more in scrum than getting work done. The people in that group are so unqualified it’s incredibly frustrating.

You must work in Data Protection in ISG where they have more PO's than engineers and build absolutely nothing.

You chose the wrong company to be a software engineer.
Dell is a HW company: whenever someone tells you we also do SW, it's just their wishful thinking spoken out loud.

Quiet quitting like your lazy colleague and work on amazing fun side projects to build your online git presence and portfolio and do the bare minimum. It’s the Dell Way tm.

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