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Newish CTO who puts technical concerns before common sense decisions in a small company. Example: App is already crashing due to server load a month prior to
by scabbycakes 9y ago
Newish CTO who puts technical concerns before common sense decisions in a small company.
Example: App is already crashing due to server load a month prior to black friday, his decision instead of optimizing things and finding the problems is to write unit tests for the month. Finally a mutiny happens by the senior team and everyone scrambles to fix and improve things a week before BF and we make it through by the skin of our teeth.
- cjwhite 9y agoI agree the priorities in that situation sound misplaced, but I would not characterize that as putting technical concerns first. Fatal bugs are a technical concern.
- scabbycakes 9y agoThere are other things, that's just an example of the startlingly poor decision making skills.
- cjwhite 9y agoThat sounds annoying. I have the opposite problem, but I still sympathize. Sometimes you get someone making really bad technical decisions so the direction forward looks good to upper management in the short term. It's a hard balance to meet the needs of the technical requirements and the business requirements, but that's why it's their damn job!