I'm a software engineer in a company transitioning from a startup to being more corporate (for lack of a better term). We've recently brought in a whole new layer of engineering leadership.

The overall attitude I'm seeing is that they're here to fix everything, and that they don't trust us to do it.

Startups get to where they are by being scrappy, writing code that works for right now, and planning and hoping for when they can finally build for the long term.

Any ideas on how to properly navigate this transition? How to continue to have impact while working with the new reality? Is there any way to convince leadership that we would be best suited for pushing things forward?

Currently my colleagues and I are getting a bit demotivated from the reorgs and from new teams picking up important refactoring work.