Yeah, salespeople are the worst. You're meant to be on our side, dammit! Stop promising the Earth for free and then blaming us when we can't do the impossible!
My first real job after college suffered from salescritters promising nonexistent features that we'd have to scramble to develop, destroying all our existing schedules.
Fortunately, we had a VP of engineering who, after a few rounds of this, was able to talk to the VP of sales and (mostly) put a stop to it. We'd still get requests for crazy features, but at least they wouldn't be promised by an unattainable date.
Yeah, salespeople are the worst. You're meant to be on our side, dammit! Stop promising the Earth for free and then blaming us when we can't do the impossible!
Maybe a little too accurate.
Things I was told as the engineer on one of these calls.
"There's a $100k bonus riding on this (for sales not engineering) if we can add this feature this quarter".
"OK, so Sales will be doing the engineering on this?"
Best of luck to Bob trying to finish (and survive 💀) that impossible implement! 🙏🙏
Too bad sales doesn't follow up with "Do you actually NEED a collaboration feature?" first before promising the development of a new one. 🤬
Well they don't call it an "Engineer call".
My first real job after college suffered from salescritters promising nonexistent features that we'd have to scramble to develop, destroying all our existing schedules.
Fortunately, we had a VP of engineering who, after a few rounds of this, was able to talk to the VP of sales and (mostly) put a stop to it. We'd still get requests for crazy features, but at least they wouldn't be promised by an unattainable date.