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Well, it depends on your goals. Recruiting cheaper programmers will probably look nice on immediate results for a time, assuming the rewrite progresses well.
by p_l 5y ago
Well, it depends on your goals.
Recruiting cheaper programmers will probably look nice on immediate results for a time, assuming the rewrite progresses well.
Whether the flood of bootcamp grads which, thanks to law of large numbers, will also contain a lot more bad choices and overwhelm your filtering ability, be actually good stewards for continued existence of things possibly critical to the business... is a completely different thing.
- Trasmatta 5y ago> Recruiting cheaper programmers will probably look nice on immediate results for a time, assuming the rewrite progresses well. Possibly, but on the other hand, "adding more developers to a late project just makes it more late". It all just feels like a colossal rathole to me. I'm feeling exhausted just thinking about it.
- nikanj 5y agoPossibly, but on the other hand, management usually sees this as a success story for HR ("Managed to fill every spot in days"), and a failure on the dev team ("The project slipped by months, despite getting all the people they asked for")