> This doesn't explain why they wouldn't accept the offer of work from /u/lopkeny12ko. Probably because $BIG_CORP was also a nimble startup ages ago, and peopl

> This doesn't explain why they wouldn't accept the offer of work from /u/lopkeny12ko. Probably because $BIG_CORP was also a nimble startup ages ago, and people had written important APIs as fast as possible because they had to, and they were successful, and the company grew, and three years later the core team realized they're supporting three different sets of APIs which all overlap but do things slightly differently, and because 70% of the company revenue depended on it, it took five more years and the souls of a few dozen developers to finally get it cleaned up. Understandably they don't want to open their codebase to someone thinking "It's just one feature that takes a few days to add! What's the issue?" - they're probably thinking "Will this make sense five years from now? What if $ACRUIRED_PROJECT gets deprecated later? Honestly I bet this project won't last two years..." ...or maybe they are just power-tripping lazy-asses. That also happens.