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A love letter to my future employer (2020)

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Re: A love letter to my future employer (2020)

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Post by jama211 »

zwnow wrote: post #8
jama211 wrote: post #4

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I sense just a touch of catastrophising going on here…

Not really. No matter what enterprise dev I talked to their product is completely unsaveable. Too big for a rewrite and basically a Frankenstein monolith/microservice done wrong architecture. It's really painful to see how bad some stuff is millions of people depend on. If builders built houses like devs built software, we would have no houses.

I didn’t say software everywhere isn’t quite crap, I’ve seen it first hand. I just thought the catastrophising was a bit over the top.

Re: A love letter to my future employer (2020)

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Post by chownie »

jama211 wrote: post #19
chownie wrote: post #11

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If anything, we're not responding to this enough . If we were civil engineers it would be shocking for the public to learn that we are sometimes ordered build the bridges terribly on purpose, for something like the purpose that it influences people toward using toll roads -- when in the world of software engineering not only has this kind of anti-user (anti- human ) behaviour become commonplace but actually it's incr…

We’re not building bridges though are we. I’m more aware than anyone that the software is terrible about the place. I’ve also seen that fail to matter that much 99% of the time.

Nah, we're just handling national security, healthcare, banking and social welfare. We're of course allowed to make oopsies, and since we're not a real engineering profession we're never held accountable :)
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