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> Software engineers are not lawyers and they are bad at interpreting laws. Right, so if something seems sketchy ("please ignore these specific deductions when
by morelisp 4y ago
> Software engineers are not lawyers and they are bad at interpreting laws.
Right, so if something seems sketchy ("please ignore these specific deductions when calculating our holdings") , get a lawyer - or CEO or CFO or whatever - to say in writing that it's fine.
And if something seems actually illegal ("just run the blood test results out-of-spec and report them anyway") just don't do it. Nothing absolves you of some things.
- roenxi 4y agoSure. But if the engineer doesn't think it is sketchy enough to seek out a lawyer, why would they suddenly be liable for issues where they are obviously ignorant, and never expected to be competent?