Maybe I've been lucky but the failure rate I saw inside tech firms is much lower than the rates I've seen outside it. Yes it still happens, but it's rarer and p

Maybe I've been lucky but the failure rate I saw inside tech firms is much lower than the rates I've seen outside it. Yes it still happens, but it's rarer and people don't freak out about it. You don't see executive careers go down in flames because some grunt accidentally used an O(N^2) algorithm at the core of a system and the project hit some arbitrary deadline before they got it fixed. And a lot of the riskier attempts at replacing things get outsourced to startups where the risk:reward ratio is a lot healthier.