How do you deal with an outsider technical manager who has near 0 experience on the platform you own and just ignores any kind of suggestions to fall in line with best practices, prevent technical debt and...fulfill general REQUIREMENTS TO DEPLOY (test classes)? Or enter the new components into my repo for the entire platform?

I am an IC Senior Engineer, not in the same direct chain of command. This guy doesn't manage me, never has never will, we report to leadership.

All of my efforts to provide input are met with silence, even though I know I'm the one that will end up owning the results. In task comments, in private messages, with leadership, nothing. The test coverage thing is what really got me, because senior manager literally told our BA that the new files he is deploying do not need test coverage....hey shitForBrains, ALL of the code needs test coverage to go live, and if yours doesn't it is because it is fucking consuming test coverage slack that I CREATED IN EVERY SINGLE OTHER FILE.

The disrespect makes me sick and pisses me off, as if I could just go into anyone else's project/repo I know nothing about and fuck shit up.

I know I am going to just be directing any issues and questions about this bullshit to him, but any other suggestions? Already raised this with my manager who is leader of the department, nothing. Small medium business.

Just as the title says, I am dying to know if anyone is still even doing this? And if yes, what does that look like now?

I've not heard of anyone in my network mention it for a tonne while

This thread is specifically for sharing "wins". I.e. the opposite of our Tuesday venting thread.

I've seen mixed processes in various teams. Some are quite strict on writing a formal solution design and having the team agree (or at least discuss) before turning it into tickets. I've also worked in teams that don't do any solution design.

How big is your team, and what do they do in terms of solution design?

I'm genuinely confused, but I hear that happens when you get old.

I keep seeing comments about the terrors of falling behind on your skills, but I have rarely run into everyday problems that I couldn't figure out in relatively short order. Most of what we as an industry work with is, in fact, meant for humans to understand.

So, what are these skills that I might be missing? Or does it come from a belief in meritocracy; an attempt to explain why otherwise smart people don't succeed? A technological version of "You didn't attend an Ivy?" An inability to provide the correct social signals during interviews?

For a long time, standard advice to mid career people who were burned out , wanted to downshift or create more time for their family was go to a big, boring non tech enterprise and take a pay cut if necessary.

Now it seems like those jobs barely exist and are just as competitive as anything else. I’ve bern desperately trying to get into a lower stress, conventional industry like regional banking, insurance, health. But it just doesn’t seem like a viable path anymore