Talented frontline teams carrying an increasingly unhealthy delivery model
Pros
Interesting arrange of clients in different verticals Strong camaraderie among delivery teams. The people doing the day-to-day work are supportive, collaborative, and generally willing to help each other succeed. The incentive to use Agentic FW push people across domains to learn about LLMs and the company pays for good tooling
Cons
AI has gone from being a useful tool to becoming the company’s entire personality. There is a constant stream of language around “agentic” frameworks, AI transformation, and the future of delivery, but when you ask what those phrases actually mean in practice, the answer often feels like AI slop wrapped in corporate language. Some managers, architects, and senior leaders are extremely difficult to work with. There is also a noticeable hierarchy in how people from LATAM and other lower-cost regions are treated. The work expectations are global, but the respect and compensation are not. Salaries in these regions can feel absurdly low compared to the level of responsibility and pressure being placed on people. Clients are drying up, because of ehm reasons projects are drying up, leaving the whole company with some large boring accounts to survive. Remote work does not automatically protect people from toxicity. Some people manage to make even remote environments feel tense, political, and exhausting. Engineering is under pressure because management seems to believe AI magically multiplies capacity. There is a growing expectation that one engineer can be stretched across several accounts while still delivering at high speed and high quality. Asking for focus, proper planning, or breathing room can be treated like a problem, especially by PMs who are under pressure themselves.
