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My only contribution to this is that I strongly believe you should only be measured on a system you built from scratch - inheriting someone else’s system and t
by ed_elliott_asc 4y ago
My only contribution to this is that I strongly believe you should only be measured on a system you built from scratch - inheriting someone else’s system and then you being measured on it is unfair.
- bcyn 4y agoWhy do you believe that? If the goal were to measure your individual programming skills in a vacuum, then your recommendation makes sense. However, software engineering in a larger organization has a different goal -- it's team sport of building & operating software to serve the business purposes of that organization. With this goal in mind, one's ability to build upon & maintain an inherited codebase is definitely relevant to success.