> Pillar’s on-boarding processes includes watching a long series of training videos on their “Step-It-Up” program talking about who Pillar is, and why they do t

> Pillar’s on-boarding processes includes watching a long series of training videos on their “Step-It-Up” program talking about who Pillar is, and why they do the things they do. They talk about things like Craftsmanship, Test-Driven-Development and consulting skills. (...) >Now, for a company that prides itself on Craftsmanship and TDD, surely there should be unit-tests somewhere, right? To my surprise, the project they landed me on had absolutely ZERO unit tests! (...) >So I did what any “Craftsman” at Pillar would do and I argued for us to start writing better tests. Unfortunately to my complete surprise, not only did I meet resistance with the client, I met resistance within Pillar itself! That is a good example of the dissonance between the idealism and jingoism of the (internal) marketing and the reality in the field. When the choice opposes - doing things right, at the first attempt and building to last to - doing things fast and on the budget (undercut to catch up to the race to the bottom) it always ends up like this. People (and companies) that know the right way but chooses the alternative.