In my experience it's normally an L4 or L5 software engineer working on a project with a lot of tech debt and no major upcoming launches. So maybe it's some random little-used Cloud product or a piece of internal infrastructure. Or it could be some aimless skunkworks team that leadership forgot about.
They also almost always have a bad manager who is sort of aware that nothing is getting done but doesn't have the management skills to address it.
They also almost always have a bad manager who is sort of aware that nothing is getting done but doesn't have the management skills to address it.