Rant

Offshoring strategy is cannibalizing the product

0x7f73…4468

·25d ago·2 comments

Is anyone else watching what's happening with our dev resources? It feels like we are losing institutional knowledge faster than we can document it, all in the name of 'efficiency' and shifting roles to lower-cost regions. I’ve been here for four years and the quality of the codebase has noticeably dipped since we started prioritizing these massive headcount shifts. It’s frustrating to sit through all-hands meetings hearing about 'innovation' when the people actually building the product are getting pushed out to save a few percentage points on the margin. We’re losing senior engineers who know the legacy systems inside out, and the documentation just isn't there to backfill the gap. It’s a race to the bottom, and I’m honestly exhausted by the constant pivot toward offshore headcount. At some point, the technical debt is going to swallow the platform whole, and it seems like management is banking on that happening long after they've cashed out their equity.

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0x532e…653d

·25d ago

It is the same story every quarter. Leadership is obsessed with headcount metrics on a spreadsheet while the actual engineering debt piles up into a mountain. I have watched three of our lead architects walk out the door in the last six months alone because they were tired of spending their entire day cleaning up code written by teams that have no context on our core architecture. You cannot offshore institutional knowledge. When the people who built the foundation leave, the whole thing eventually turns into a black box that nobody knows how to fix.

0x317a…a7a2

·25d ago

I honestly think it is time to stop expecting a different result. Management has made it clear that they prioritize margins over technical excellence, and the product roadmap is just a shadow of what it used to be. Every time we push a release now, we find bugs that were solved years ago. It feels like we are sprinting toward a cliff while being told we are running a marathon. If you have been here four years, you have seen the peak, but I really doubt we are going to climb back up from here.