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> Collectively, companies today lose upward of $300 billion a year paying down "technical debt," as developers pour time into maintaining legacy systems or dea
by expertentipp 8y ago
> Collectively, companies today lose upward of $300 billion a year paying down "technical debt," as developers pour time into maintaining legacy systems or dealing with the ramifications of bad software.
As a person who had looked intensively for a job in Central Europe in the recent months I can confirm this. Plenty of awful software and stacks. Decade old monoliths in ASP .NET, Visual Basic, pyramidal monstrosities in JAVA, fucking COBOL transactional and registering systems. The only reason they „maintain” these projects is some legal obligation, once the obligation expires the project will be shut down and people will have to look for a job in the year 2020 having experience with Visual Basic. You will have „standups” with „American colleagues” at 7pm your time. It’s literally working on carcasses. Good portion of German and Swiss businesses pushing out their rotten carasses over here as well.