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I believe everything you need to know about who would be responsible for this kind of "mistake" is right here from the article: > Our own internal tool worked
by slingnow 5y ago
I believe everything you need to know about who would be responsible for this kind of "mistake" is right here from the article:
> Our own internal tool worked well (I would like to say it was all due to me, which would be an arrogant thing to say, but also 100% true, so I will say it: It was all or mostly due to me)
This is a person who is incredibly overconfident in their limited skills and hasn't yet developed any sort of self-awareness or self-reflection. The fact that the rest of the article blames everyone else for his mistakes further proves the point.
> I could have tested it better, but that would have meant working late into the night. No thanks. I had already worked a few late nights/weekends and I was done.
Uh huh.
- Jiro 5y agoPeople in the industry tend to laugh at having to work late as some sort of standard practice in the industry. But if the time allotted to program it is not enough time to program it in a properly tested manner, that's a management problem, even if the programmer could have worked overtime and gotten it tested better. It's a bad practice for managers to schedule things such that they can only be completed with overtime, and managers bear a huge portion of the responsibility for any problems that result from that practice.