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Ultimately, devs can't get sales reps fired, but sales reps can absolutely get devs fired.

Depending on how dysfunctional the org is, there's no super dev anywhere who can fix it. You just shut up, do bad things knowing theyre bad, or get fired.



It should be the opposite. For every big engineering issue happened because of the sales' dept pressures, the sales reps would have their asses out of any company.


When I was working in MSP land this was the worst.

I had a sales guy sell a a company a replacement for their terminal server, with OneDrive lol

I almost died laughing when he explained to me the project.

I said.. you want to run cad files off OneDrive in place of a terminal/storage server?

"Yes"

Let's just say we ended up just moving their server to the cloud and VPN access onsite and for external developers.




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