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I have had nightmares about stuff like this. I get called in to update an in house program, start looking at the code and exclaim “wtf is this? Who wrote thi
by cwbrandsma 6y ago
I have had nightmares about stuff like this. I get called in to update an in house program, start looking at the code and exclaim “wtf is this? Who wrote this?”...and then enters a sheepish looking 17 year old. Now I have to back track “hold up there...is this your first program? Really? Good job”.
- bluedino 6y agoTry when it’s a 44 year old and he’s been there twenty years, leaving his fingerprints on every process “We have to listen to Dave, he built this place! We can’t replace his code!”
- Ma8ee 6y agoOr when you complain about some really horrible legacy code and then it comes up that is written by your new tech lead just a few months ago.
- CRConrad 6y agoOr, worse: By yourself a few years ago.
- artificial 6y ago"....aaah this was my early functional phase."
- mtnGoat 6y agoyea i learned about that early on, and the hard way... first day i was told by the VP to review a bunch of code and share my thoughts with the team next day. all the code that, IMO, had the worse issues, had all been recently redone by the guy who was adjacent to my boss. that sure got me started on the wrong foot with that guy.
- spiralx 6y agoDid that with the CTO. Don't think he was impressed. Later on I got the sack from that place.
- bluedino 6y agoTo be fair to Dave: he knows all the edge cases, he just isn't the right person to be writing code.