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And if that had gone slightly wrong, this person would have gotten fired and also a bad reputation in an industry that is smaller than people think.
by fnord77 2y ago
And if that had gone slightly wrong, this person would have gotten fired and also a bad reputation in an industry that is smaller than people think.
- fragmede 2y agotake your shot. don't miss. If the chipper younger dev had failed, we wouldn't be reading this story. so there's survivors bias at play here. but we were all young and dumb like that at some point in our lives. it worked out for some but not for others. some exit the field entirely and go find other vocations.
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- toomuchtodo 2y agoReputation risk is important, but you’re still a disposable cog. When an opportunity to succeed presents itself, it’s a calculated risk. Could’ve death marched through the holidays and still been fired, for any reason. Sometimes you gotta manage up aggressively. (Have seen an engineering team liquidated the day after successful delivery, death marched to it, for example)
- barkingcat 2y agomeh, if you did everything right, you'd be laid off 1 day after launch. So there's really absolutely no risk to do this. Either way you will be fired/laid off, so why not just do it.
- MBCook 2y agoRight. The project was gonna fail. Is it that inconceivable that some of the devs involved would’ve been fired? Cant fire the CTO, after all. It wasn’t his fault his stupid plan didn’t work. It can’t be the big successful company his friend runs. It’s the disposable staff who screwed up.