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Well, they pay less money when people leave, and one of their approaches to "solve" the "problem" of people leaving is to get increasingly junior and inexperien
by MCRed 11y ago
Well, they pay less money when people leave, and one of their approaches to "solve" the "problem" of people leaving is to get increasingly junior and inexperienced people.
The team now is made up mostly of people whose programming experience is a 6 week boot camp designed to take non programmers and teach them how to program... led by two people who seem to be also-rans who never learned anything after the java boom of the 1990s. Continuos integration? Why would we need that?
They aren't a startup- they are a subdivision of a much larger company, and that's the source of the problem- that larger company has no technical capability, or care, and the management is... incompetent, to say the least.
- Bahamut 11y agoI once worked for a startup that did this - pretty much fired a lot of the competent engineers, or they quit. A lot of engineers complained about the ungodly hours many had to put in for unrealistic deadlines that were pushed down by sales. Supposedly the executives heard about the complaints that their best engineers were ready to walk out, and promised to change the way things were run - I got word recently that they were still continuing the same overpromising, which led to unsurprising unstable backend & frontend issues of various degrees. One product manager described it to me as setting everyone up for failure. I'm increasingly convinced that it is the sign of bad leadership, and people with no business being in management or an executive position.