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> When it's brought up people are like "ooh yeah that's like really really bad, but what about [tiny useless feature than one user asked about]?we don't have th
by lovelearning 4y ago
> When it's brought up people are like "ooh yeah that's like really really bad, but what about [tiny useless feature than one user asked about]?we don't have the time to fix that!"
- danielmarkbruce 4y agoFor important things you have to take the initiative. Take a couple hours every day for however long. Just get it done.
- lovelearning 4y agoUnfortunately, if a company's culture is bad, initiative won't help. In some companies, product managers and tech leads actively discourage initiative. Time just becomes a convenient excuse to discourage. I suspect this is the case in OP's company, given how systematic the negligence is.
- danielmarkbruce 4y agoI don't know how big the change is but assuming it's not crazy big, if you make a pull request with the relevant changes and send it to another eng who isn't a dick, you are going to get it in. If someone asks why you spent time on it, you say it took 45 mins.
- ipaddr 4y agoThen the unauthorized fix is blamed for unrelated issues and believed because no one is really technical in leadership.
- danielmarkbruce 4y agoWho said unauthorized? There is a ticket. You create a pull request, another engineer approves the request.
- danwee 4y ago> Unfortunately, if a company's culture is bad, initiative won't help That's the chicken and egg problem. If you perceive that the company's culture is bad, you won't have initiative. If you (anyone) don't have initiative, then company's culture is kept the same.