I don’t mind this as long as the sales team and management allow the correct amount of time to build it in a maintainable way.
The reality is I only get paid because of those deals, and the post deal tech-debt sprint never happens.
So the work has to get done and if sales doesn’t give time for it to be done properly then in 3-6 months velocity will drop and the sales pipeline will dry up.
Any company that can’t understand that is not a long term company I want to work at.
HN is largely a US ivory tower forum, lot of good discussions happen here - but many folks are coming from the costal endless “VC” money mindset where company revenue is not much a consideration because they just move on to the next high paying gig when the money dries up.
The reality is I only get paid because of those deals, and the post deal tech-debt sprint never happens.
So the work has to get done and if sales doesn’t give time for it to be done properly then in 3-6 months velocity will drop and the sales pipeline will dry up.
Any company that can’t understand that is not a long term company I want to work at.