Answer to: Repeated unjustified comments "your demonstration sucks" during a presentation

You don't have to deal with the out of scope questions. Your manager does. Let your manager manage, and focus on doing your own job to the best of your ability. Upper management may just have been having a bad day. If not, it is your managers job to pry what was wrong with the demo out of them, not yours. Be aware that sometimes projects fail to meet the company's immediate needs, no matter how good they are. Get used to seeing good stuff shelved because something else is judged more important in the short term; it is going to happen on a regular basis throughout your career. If you are unusually lucky, it may be possible to take some of those projects back off the shelf later. By then you might be in a position to lead that effort. (I had one that a department spent several years on, before the department was raided for head count for another project that was deemed more important. We managed to get a few patents through before we were shut down, and a snapshot of the project was theoretically released as part of a product, but as far as I know never mentioned and never maintained thereafter. If I ever find time, I may try to revive the concept independently... though the intellectual property issues could get nasty. That's the downside of doing work for hire. The upside is that you get paid whether or not the product reaches the market.)