There's also several more classes of B.S., for what it's worth.
An exaggerated/anonymized version of a recent one I got, from an otherwise-really-strong senior engineer: "Of course when I said we would put a button there, it also meant we MUST build an entire UI framework from scratch, with full test coverage for the entire thing!"
...actually, that's not even that exaggerated. Shipping software at big companies can be unreasonably difficult, sometimes.
Yea, I've had the privilege of working with a few _excellent_ project managers (or Producers as they're called in gaming) and they work literal magic.
I've studied project management, I've managed projects and lead teams, but holy crap those people are on a whole other level with how well they gather and disseminate information and communicate it effectively.
None of them could code themselves out of a wet paper bag, but that's not the skill they get hired for.
An exaggerated/anonymized version of a recent one I got, from an otherwise-really-strong senior engineer: "Of course when I said we would put a button there, it also meant we MUST build an entire UI framework from scratch, with full test coverage for the entire thing!"
...actually, that's not even that exaggerated. Shipping software at big companies can be unreasonably difficult, sometimes.