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Can we create a thread called "my year in big company corporate IT department hell"? I'll go first: I reported to an incompetent business person who having fa
by 4pm 11y ago
Can we create a thread called "my year in big company corporate IT department hell"?
I'll go first:
I reported to an incompetent business person who having failed at doing anything that required business sense, used his considerable political skills to lead a tech team instead. Management practices included lying to create enemities between team members.
I am also writing a book about it. :)
Would you rather work in a room full of motivated smart people who are building somthing useful, or a rigid heirarchy that lacks transparency and puts its own personal interests over the work they do? Hmmm hard choice.
- FLUX-YOU 11y agoThe support ticket reads: "I can't upload this lab document to the site!" I call the person up for details, get the file they were trying to upload, and recreate the issue. I pull up the code for this site, run it on a local copy to get the exception, and find out that someone's string concatenating SQL queries from form inputs. This site was written in 2014. I bring it up in a meeting but we can't allocate time to fix that because it currently works well enough.
- F_J_H 11y agoUsing bind variables?
- forgetsusername 11y agoWould you rather work in a room full of motivated smart people who are building somthing useful, or a rigid heirarchy that lacks transparency and puts its own personal interests over the work they do? Hmmm hard choice. The former, obviously. The flaw in your argument is that in no way are startup employees the smart ones, and big corporations the dumb ones. In fact, part of what makes startup culture disconcerting is that everyone thinks they're too smart. Is there any evidence that HubSpot has higher-than-average numbers of smart people?