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According to LinkedIn, this company has 12 employees. Once they hit like 20 - 50 engineers and some decide to write code "their way" and some leave, it's going
by lazyant 5y ago
According to LinkedIn, this company has 12 employees. Once they hit like 20 - 50 engineers and some decide to write code "their way" and some leave, it's going to be a mess to be onboarded there and make sense of code you haven't written yourself.
- abstract_put 5y agoI completely agree. I have worked at a company that had exactly this trajectory. It's also not just the number of employees, but also the age of the code and the number of micro-pivots that nobody bothered actually refactoring through the code. Specifically the company went: - All senior developers who had a strong sense of the actual product and what they're trying to do -> no pull requests, everybody happy - An awkward middle area where eventually they had tripled in size and code quality was haemorrhaging customers and paralyzing attempts to release -> "what do we change?", nobody happy - Another doubling in size, giant organizational change -> PRs are mandatory, people aren't happy but any attempts to reduce PR burden has almost a straight line to bugs in production