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Due to some turnover I ended up working mostly independently for about a year at a previous job. Nobody cared one bit about the code I wrote, just the end resul
by rurp 5y ago
Due to some turnover I ended up working mostly independently for about a year at a previous job. Nobody cared one bit about the code I wrote, just the end result. Overall it was great! I was surprised at how productive I was in that time. I'm not a partiularly amazing developer, but I managed to ship a ton of work that held up quite well.
Obviously there are limits to this approach and it wouldn't work well for solving really difficult problems, but really, 99% of day-to-day development work isn't that special. A motivated and conscientious developer with average skills can get an awful lot done with minimal distractions.
- e12e 5y agoSounds like high bus-factor. Were you also expected to pick up "alien" code dumps as other programmers left? Were you happy/efficient working with these unseen code bases?
- rurp 5y agoI had a few coworkers working on very related areas that I coordinated with, plus we did have some contingency plans so one of us could step into the others place in a pinch. But that was a weakness and things could have been rough if I had been hit by a bus. An alien code dump is basically how I ended up in the situation. My boss left abruptly and a bunch of work he had been handling himself suddenly fell to me. At first it was really stressful trying to get a handle on everything, but once I got over the hump it was quite nice.