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I think the grandparent post isn't trying to say "a 100,000 employee company automatically makes secure software" but rather "anecdotal evidence from a year or
by rodw 7y ago
I think the grandparent post isn't trying to say "a 100,000 employee company automatically makes secure software" but rather "anecdotal evidence from a year or two of personal experience may not be representative of a 100,000 employee company". Cisco has dozens (hundreds?) of global offices and is well known for growth-via-acquisition. There must be a million little micro-cultures in an organization that large, diverse and distributed.
- atilaneves 7y ago> There must be a million little micro-cultures in an organization that large There are, and in those, good code can be written. They're the exception. Source: worked there for 7 years.
- PeterisP 7y agoThat's kind of the problem - if you have a hundred little micro-cultures involved in a project, and 99 of these cultures value safety and one does not, then in the end you get an insecure product. A chain is as strong as its weakest link.