4 ms·
At your annual review, "I kept our rickety leaning tower of tech debt from falling over" doesn't sounds as good as "I deployed blah blah systems to (do whatever
by CalRobert 7y ago
At your annual review, "I kept our rickety leaning tower of tech debt from falling over" doesn't sounds as good as "I deployed blah blah systems to (do whatever)".
This is bad, of course, but it's generally how things go.
- mszkoda 7y agoEven more so, when you're interviewing somewhere else you (and usually they) want to talk about new things you deployed or new systems you created, not how you maintained this boring code base for 2 years.
- rantwasp 7y agoit’s hard explaining and assessing work done in maintenance. interviews are also really stressful.
- therealdrag0 7y agoI've had good results highlighting performance and security-holes I've fixed. Engineers also sympathize/appreciate with improvements I've done just for my own sanity, like making the build pipeline faster. None of these where things I did because someone told me to, they where things I do because I cared. Meanwhile plenty of my peers ignored the problems or couldn't be bothered to fix them.