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It's a big red flag when a dev makes something really cool that is (according to them) 90% done, then hands it off to someone else to finish. It's a sign that t
by octopoc 5y ago
It's a big red flag when a dev makes something really cool that is (according to them) 90% done, then hands it off to someone else to finish. It's a sign that they:
1. Can't finish what they started
2. Are going to rewrite stuff unnecessarily
3. Are willing to throw their coworkers under the bus
- Aqueous 5y agoI will say, in this case it is not what happened. The previous system launched successfully with an incorrect schema. The platform grew and when it came time to add more features, some of them were either impossible to do because of the incorrect schema, or they would have been so complex to implement that the system would have fallen apart. Needless to say, the schema needed to be corrected, but the wrong schema was already baked in all across the platform. So it's not like the main developer handed something off that was unfinished. They handed something off that was finished but wrong. And because of that we had to replace the engine while in flight, so to speak.