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> Companies producing hardware or devices tend to think hardware-first This was my experience. I worked as a firmware developer for a company producing compute
by anthomtb 4y ago
> Companies producing hardware or devices tend to think hardware-first
This was my experience. I worked as a firmware developer for a company producing computer hardware. The attitude of management was “the product is perfect then firmware breaks it”. Never mind that the thing didn’t work without firmware.
The concrete result was that it was impossible to get support from hardware teams. You would chase some weird bug for weeks, be ghosted by your supposed hardware support contact. Then finally chase the guy out to his car at 6:00 pm and find out, “oh yeah, we changed the address of that register, guess we forgot to update the software interface doc. I’ll update the errata tomorrow.” (obviously he never did).
- Jtsummers 4y ago"We'll fix it in software" was a common statement from management at an early job. It's a very frustrating thing, hilariously (or sadly?) they even put "will be waterproof" under the software requirements for one system. That was an actual mistake, but given the general theme of the place it was conceivable at first that it was deliberate.