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The type of company that hires these companies don't have the corporate structures necessary to build decent software either. They'll build crap 3 times over wi
by flukus 10y ago
The type of company that hires these companies don't have the corporate structures necessary to build decent software either. They'll build crap 3 times over with poor results and cost more doing it.
I'm sure you've heard about those people with 10 years of experience that are unable to code fizzbuzz? They hide out in those large corporate environments.
- osrec 10y agoYes, I've come to the realisation that large corporations are where the spirits of good developers go to die...
- muro 10y agoMicrosoft, Apple, Google, FB and other places with awesome devs are also large corporations :)
- abalashov 10y agoI'm pretty sure the parent posters were referring to large corporations whose core product is not technology as such, although even there, you'd be surprised (or maybe you wouldn't). You don't have to get far from MS/Apple/Google/FB/etc. to walk into an alternate universe of complete mediocrity, where engineering and development are viewed as cost centres and/or fancy forms of typing...
- flukus 10y agoEven within those companies lurk a lot of mediocrity, either acquired or homegrown. MS and Google have had some stinkers over the years, apple seems better, but the probably keep the worst of it internal.
- pjmlp 10y agoIf you ever read stories about internal political wars at those places, you will realize they aren't so great to work there. Specially taking into account the type of assemments being done to the employees, or which R&D unit is driving the main products (e.g. WinDev vs DevTools). Yes, places like Microsoft System Research are great, but that is just a unit from the whole corporation. Same applies to the others.