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This is why its a good idea to tell new hires to not be shy about asking "Why?". They haven't had enough time to become numb to the idiosyncrasies of the organi
by mcbutterbunz 3y ago
This is why its a good idea to tell new hires to not be shy about asking "Why?". They haven't had enough time to become numb to the idiosyncrasies of the organization. At some point, you start to live with all those little problems, forget they are actual problems, and you just live with them until someone asks "Why?" and you respond "yeah, why DO we do that?"
- wmidwestranger 3y ago"Brenda came up with it, isn't she awesome?" Most common type of answer I've received, which is a bit of a bummer.
- fatnoah 3y agoI'm literally dealing with that as we speak. Some architecture developed by the Staff Eng. on a team that's really not workable and was causing the team to run in circles. Ultimately, I had to jump in and ask a lot of questions about the implementation. i.e. Why was it built that way, along with the related questions about what goals of the implementation were (elegance, speed to delivery, future-proofing, ability to parallelize code effort, etc) and what app/business problems the code was solving.