Company loses talented engineers. For the past 1-2 years things got much worse since company loses talented engineers without getting any good hires. From what I've seen company hires Senior/Staff engineers that would go on and spend a week just trying to run unit tests. Or another good examples here would be Staff level engineers that push 1-2 medium size PRs (1k lines of changes/medium size refactoring/small feature or integration with a third party API) in 6 months! Company hires more and more managers. While the overall product is still relatively small, the distance between top management and a regular engineer keeps increasing. As a result most people are now play much more politics than do actual work. Work has become much more about stroking ego of your manager than making impact on the product by building new features or helping customers resolve their issues with the product. New managers that have joined the company show little to no interest in building the product or solving customers issues, it seems that they are much more interested in Your delivery as an engineer doesn't matter. I've seen engineers that barely exist in terms of how much they deliver. It's absolutely okay for an engineer to spend 5x-10x time to build a medium size features that you would expect to be done in a month. As long as you're friends with your manager, you're completely fine. And on the other hand, you can deliver twice as much as any other engineer on the squad with a greater quality in terms how well the things that you build work in production, but if someone doesn't like you as a person they will start making things up or find the smallest thing just to put you down and tell others that you're not that great.
