Engineer: "It does one thing."
Sales/marketing: "It does ANYTHING!"
"... by the way, we've already sold that feature I made up to two customers, so ..."
In an open source project, I worked with another younger dev who did this. It was not the way I wanted so I just didn't do it.
Absolutely fucking correct, and that's the part that I hate much more than not being given proper credit.
Oh dear Lord...
Eh when sales says "we made this" it means the whole company in my mind, not them stealing the credit.
Now we sales says "we'll make this" is when you have a problem.
That was it. This started because there was a slide deck that showed this huge project that I've spent the last year on. This was 100% a software project. On the slide deck saying thanks, all of engineering got a single bullet point, while marketing and sales got oh, the other 90% of the slide. You know, just that pesky task of building the damn thing, that's just over here, in the corner, it's everyone else who really did the work.
All for people getting credit where credit is due, but man did that feel like a slap in the face to me. Sad thing is it happens all the time, this is nothing new, just a regular day of the week
Eng: so we were discussing this concept, and it’s something we might be able to put together in 6-8 months. Would th-
Sales: HEY JIM LETS GO SELL THIS FUCKIN THING
Eng: …what.
Ahh yes. I switched companies because some new sales guy I discovered was getting paid more than me after I was there 9 years.
I mean, I completely understand them. You just build the products. Running and building them doesn't bring in money - that costs money! You know what brings in money? Sales. That's why they deserve such huge amounts of money, because they're bringing in money!
/s if that isn't horribly obvious. They never seem to connect that without a product there's nothing to sell, do they?
