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To be fair, most of those "primadona devs", as you call them, would much prefer to write well-designed programs cleanly coded, but are given completely unreason
by tharne 6y ago
To be fair, most of those "primadona devs", as you call them, would much prefer to write well-designed programs cleanly coded, but are given completely unreasonable timeframes and staffing then told to create an MVP then turn it over to offshore.
Very few people enjoy producing junk, but management (and customers) often demand junk today rather than quality tomorrow.
- pdimitar 6y agoObviously neither me nor you can generalize -- both extremes exist. Given the chance I'd likely collect a fat paycheck and bail out at the end of the contract as those other people did. But that attitude is responsible for the increasingly awful mess that modern software is becoming. Almost everyone is at fault, me included. The perverted incentives of today's world are only making things worse.
- ridethebike 6y agoPrimadona dev here :) >> most of those "primadona devs", as you call them, would much prefer to write well-designed programs cleanly coded Most of them - yes. But there's a non-negligible chunk of them who are too careless or incompetent to care about quality - they've been around long enough to gain knowledge about project and get Vice-President title(inflated ego included). It is especially visible in big banks (I suppose it's typical for other big non-tech corps as well) where tech culture is generally on poor side. edit: grammar