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IT horror stories involving IBM don't really surprise me anymore. I'm more surprised by the companies and governments they continue to game with their low ball
by bitmapbrother 9y ago
IT horror stories involving IBM don't really surprise me anymore. I'm more surprised by the companies and governments they continue to game with their low ball bid tactics.
I once worked with a large team from IBM that was staffed with Indians that did the work both onsite and offshore in India and it was without a doubt the worst code quality I've ever seen in my career. There were classes with 10,000+ LOC, methods with over 1000 LOC and dead unreachable code that wasn't even commented out. Speaking of comments, if it wasn't automatically generated by the IDE there would be none. But the most horrific example of their lack of attention to detail and code quality was the absolute absence of any unit tests in this massive project with millions of LOC. The only unit tests ever written were by me and those unit tests were subsequently disabled/commented out when some other developer decided it would be easier to disable the unit tests rather than to modify them to adhere to the changes they were making. It's a shame more clients don't hire independent code auditing companies to inspect the code their paying millions of dollars for.
- adekok 9y agoI've seen large companies do the same. Testing? Pfft.. that's for losers. Design specs? Same answer. Apparently if you spend enough on sales, you can sell utter shit to unsuspecting customers. Then, you beat up the engineering team to fix all of the bugs that the customers report.