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If it saves them a lot of money on paper, yes, they will just hire someone else
by wahnfrieden 3y ago
If it saves them a lot of money on paper, yes, they will just hire someone else
- Grazester 3y agoAnd how long would it take for the person to get up to speed on the code for such software that in production and may have critical bugs that need fixing now?
- re-thc 3y ago> And how long would it take for the person to get up to speed on the code for such software If only this is more understood. I've been on both ends and as the newcomer you rarely get any ramp up time and management assume you'd know what you're doing in 5 minutes.
- wahnfrieden 3y agoBusiness managers don't like to think that way because they know they're already screwed if business continuity relies heavily on "bus factor 1" individuals
- bugglebeetle 3y agoI built a system at an old job that as far as I know has been in operation for over 10 years, completely untouched. I left the company that long ago, interviewed about three years ago for another position in the same department, where someone disclosed it was still up and running, without modification. I’m sure someone had to read the code at some point, but they could have fired me right after it was built and suffered no great loss because of it. I guess I should’ve spent some more time overengineering the whole thing or introducing subtle bugs if I wanted job security, as I have seen others do.