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Sometimes bright people will complicate a simple problem and go into unnecessary complexity for speculative imagined reasons. Which is not desirable, makes systems unnecessarily complex. Management needs to put a roadmap before the engineer otherwise the rocket scientist engineer will starts to make the simple piece a complete rocket, which forever will need rocket scientists to maintain. Sometimes people forget the true genius is in embracing complexity only where it is needed.

The one frustrates me the most is the (lacking of) promotion opportunities. I don't think anyone who advanced well here has a balanced work-life style and I think the problem is worse for non-Eng jobs. In fact I think many people plan to leave for this reason when revenue starts turning sour and perks start to dis-appear. The second part is we have too many small projects lead by direction-less management or are duplicating efforts. This used to work well and small 20% projects may become core products. But now the company is no-longer a mid-size nor a startup, we need well-planned projects with clear directions that envision the next 3 years, not the next quarter.