I’ve haven’t had a burnout (knocks wood), but the most toxic environment I’ve worked in had tight deadlines, unclear requirements and many last minute changes on features that ultimately didn’t mattered. Combine this with long and tedious release processes and narrow release windows. If a bug slipped through our (not so robust) testing process, it was difficult to fix it.

It felt like the priorities were all wrong. Instead of improving the product for existing customers and improve our release process, it was all about adding pointless features some ”potential buyer” asked for (they never bought the product either way).

Now I work in a much better workplace, thankfully.