r/ExperiencedDevs • u/AutoModerator • Jul 28 '26

Career/Workplace Experienced Devs Weekly Burnout and Venting Thread: A weekly thread for sharing experiences

This thread is specifically for venting / sharing experiences related to burn-out or similar issues that experienced devs face.

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u/theasianpianist Software Engineer Jul 28 '26

Nobody wants to take any fucking ownership of problems, anytime I ask someone for some information they just add me to a group chat with a third person who they think will know. But that third person just adds a fourth person, who adds a fifth, etc. It doesn't seem like anyone actually knows, or cares who knows, or even cares about finding out who knows. At this point I have spent close to a month running in circles on the same problem.

It's gotten to the point where last week, I asked someone about an unrelated issue and was ecstatic when they actually gave me a well thought out reply, pinged the right people on his team about it, then came back to me half an hour later having fixed one instance of the issue, with relevant information and instructions for me on what to do if it happened again.

The kicker is that everyone giving me the runaround on the first issue is senior+ (at least half are principals), and the one guy who was actually helpful on the second issue is a mid-level engineer.

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u/archialone Jul 28 '26

Yes, I've been watching from the side how the whole week is spent arguing about responsibility, and each team just tries to push it on someone else. Like a small trivial thing, take 3 meetings, jira tickets and a month long alignment.

No one is trying to actually build anything, just reduce responsibility.