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It is honestly baffling, totally baffling to me that in this day and age there are companies that don't use source control or a bug tracker (but trust me, I bel
by hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
It is honestly baffling, totally baffling to me that in this day and age there are companies that don't use source control or a bug tracker (but trust me, I believe you).
With these companies I think it's just best to walk the other way. Some of them may state that "yeah, we know we need to improve our engineering practices, so we're willing to learn" but they usually just have so much of a different mindset of what it takes to actually run a software company that it's just a waste of time. There are many more companies that have a modicum of understanding about what they're doing.
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoThese rarely are "software companies". They're companies in other industries, that happen to need some software. Sometimes it's a pretty plumb gig: Good, but not great, pay, often in relatively lower cost-of-living areas, a relatively light workload, a good amount of autonomy as one of a maybe a handful of software devs, and in their blindness to good practices (like source control), they're also untouched by common bad practices in software, like whatever bastardized version of agile/scrum that your bosses heard through an extremely lossy telephone game. But there's also the bad: Software isn't the company's focus, so you aren't the company's focus. That means no "Senior FAANG" salaries, no best practices to keep things sane, and often you find yourself working on a codebase that was originally hacked together in a week by a chemist who may or may not have been deliberating huffing reagent fumes.