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Yes, but.. I am a software architect. ~90% of the job offers I get are from CEOs/CTOs who want me to join their small company to help them refactor because they

• icedchai 4y ago
  For every company that has this problem, another several never made it far enough for it to matter.
• dgb23 4y ago
  Is that a "but" or is that how things should work? You solve a problem when you have it or can reasonably predict it (in technical/engineering terms). I also think it's sensible to look for experts when you need them right?
  • colechristensen 4y ago
    I don't know I've been places where the difficulty scaling and failure to do it promptly posed an existential threat. As in "this system is poorly designed and needs to be rewritten so we're going to pause new features for six months to do it", you can't always just magically find an expert to solve your problems in a timely manner, and feeding the technical debt monster can easily kill startups.
• xboxnolifes 4y ago
  If this pattern is successful, it's not killing them.
• noodle 4y ago
  If they have the money to hire you and they have pent-up growth that refactoring will unlock, that really sounds like close to an ideal path for a startup to take. They're literally paying down their tech debt by paying to hire you. Maybe ideal would be a little earlier so it doesn't block growth, but yeah. In my experience way more startups have died from premature optimization