My worst nightmare has come true; finally at the crossroads
The organization I work for recently hit a massive setback. The writing is on the wall: we have about 5-6 months to turn things around, or the layoffs are going to start.
But instead of tightening up, absolute madness has taken over.
Our CTO has suddenly granted full frontend codebase access to everyone in the office. People from the Marketing and Design teams are literally pushing code straight to PROD.All using claude. It is humiliating to watch.
To make matters worse, the CTO has openly started asking non-engineers to take over frontend tasks, brushing it off as just "a few lines of HTML-CSS-JS."
I've been in this industry for near 6-7 years, and I feel like this is a glaring sign that the frontend team is going to be the first one to the slaughterhouse when the time comes.
I need a reality check from the community:
- Is this kind of "cross-team" cowboy coding happening anywhere else, or is my CTO losing his mind?
- What should be my next move here?
- Should I take this as a sign to pivot to Full-Stack, or abandon ship entirely?
TL;DR: Company has a 6-month runway before layoffs. CTO panicked, gave marketing/design direct access to push frontend code to PROD, and called our jobs "just a few lines of HTML/CSS." Trying to figure out if I need to pivot to full-stack or just run.