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Do big companies like Google and Amazon fire developers for buggy releases?
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Re: Do big companies like Google and Amazon fire developers for buggy releases?
#22Haven’t seen anyone fired in a year at my current large company. Have seen our process deployed many times to make sure work is coordinated to make that error impossible next time.
Re: Do big companies like Google and Amazon fire developers for buggy releases?
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is so funny. I once worked on a year long project. The aim was to reduce customer escalations for my client. Changed the architecture of an extremely complex software making sure no regressions occurred and all new features worked flawlessly. The software was released and no customer escalations. I was happy, but found no one else cared. A few months later, during a meeting with the client manager, I brought thi…
My take is that you don't get rewarded for it directly, but rather once you're finished, you can move on to the next thing without having to constantly firefight and squash bugs on the previous project. So ideally you can get a lot more done in a given half than someone who pushed out a pile of buggy spaghetti that they're now constantly having to deal with. On the other hand, if you can ship something a few weeks fa…
True, but my experience is that managers are not so great at recognizing consistent good results but often remember someone coming through in a clutch situation. Because measuring developer performance is hard, the consistently good dev is often overshadowed by the one who put out fires (even if they were the firestarter).
Re: Do big companies like Google and Amazon fire developers for buggy releases?
#24The company I work at does not fire people for introducing bugs (everyone introduces bugs at some point and time). We try to find out what failures in our process (dev, test, release) contributed to the failure and try fix them. Some of the causes may be large, so it takes us time to get the organizational commitment and focus to work on them, but we do act. I have (personally) been fortunate never to have worked wit…
I noticed that the author called out several contracting firms instead of "real" tech companies. Can't help but wonder if things really are that messed up on that side of the fence.