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Yeah that story is total bullshit. It's someone's fantasy. The equivalent of me telling the story of my epic comeback in the Superbowl.
It's pretty hard to imagine HR intervening in business operations to protect a single department's work-life balance - couldn't really track it from there.
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That sounds about right. I'd also note to the OP that in might help to treat the acquiring company like the Borg: they acquired you , and now it's on you to serve their needs, not necessarily the other way around. If your app isn't quite compatible with their infrastructure, the right move is probably to modify your app, not ask them to modify their infrastructure. That might be annoying, but it's probably also the r…
> If your app isn't quite compatible with their infrastructure, the right move is probably to modify your app, not ask them to modify their infrastructure. This is my thought as well. The claim is that the fix on the infrastructure side should be a few days at most, but also that the infrastructure does not work for the app. If it’s only a few days for an infrastructure change, why is it so untenable to modify the ap…
It could be an incompatibility with a core requirement e.g. application used webrtc or websocket, bundling / deployment system can’t handle them (will reject / close on upgrade requests or long connections), you’d have to rearch the entire product, probably detrimentally to the system / experience.
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I see a lot of startups dying, much more than fortune 500 companies. Can I now conclude not having processes kills companies faster? It's not that this thread advices to shrug it off. They try to explain why some things can't go faster that easily and what seems cloggy and stupid can still be an effective machine at scale.
>I see a lot of startups dying, much more than fortune 500 companies. Can I now conclude not having processes kills companies faster? No you cannot, because your starting premise is flawed. One organization has demonstrated its value over time - quite possibly inter-generationally - and the other has not proven its certainty in returning income. And what created that value in time? The people. With startups, it could…
Point is there is much more at play why fortune 500 companies and startups die. You cannot put that to bureaucracy (alone), especially not from the distance we are discussing it here.
Tell me you never ran a large code base in production, without telling me. Past a certain point there are no "simple code changes" anymore. Automation and functional QA needs to ensure zero regressions, internal and external docs need to be considered, it all needs to be bundled in with many other code changes (feature and fixes), etc. There is no shortcut. Even FB had to dial back their "break shit in prod" mantra.…
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> This doesn't explain why they wouldn't accept the offer of work from /u/lopkeny12ko. I know of at least two teams who would kindly ask me to refrain from doing this; me doing the work doesn't mean they don't have to do any. They still have to take the time to review my code, provide feedback, possibly explain to me their standards and conventions. Afterward, they have to maintain and own my changes - what if I intr…
Heaven forbid someone introduce a popular feature into an internal tool. I do know the concern here, but it seems to miss the forest for the leaves on the trees.
I have many of these it "just takes a few days requests". There probably aren't many people that can actually implement these changes and the ones that do have other stuff on their tables. The company I work for isn't even that large, but I mostly have 2022 planned in advance.
Understand that you are annoyed, but you should just explain to your manager that the migration will not happen before mid 2022 because requirements aren't met yet.
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I can buy the part about putting up fences between business people at the tech team. Been there, done that, modernized project management. But the "thank you"s, bonuses and all that? Complete fantasy. :)
Why? Maybe it’s that you’ve never worked for a boss that fought that hard for your free time? Great bosses like this exist