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Do most places pass the Joel Test? He says that if you answer no to two or more of these, "you have serious problems", and I count about seven that I would say
by cipheredStones 2y ago
Do most places pass the Joel Test? He says that if you answer no to two or more of these, "you have serious problems", and I count about seven that I would say no to at my current big-name (and well-reputed) tech company:
4. Do you have a bug database? ["an organized database listing all known bugs in the code"]
No, each team has one or several poorly organized Jira boards that contain some fraction of the known bugs.
5. Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
Lol? Does any major company do this?
6. Do you have an up-to-date schedule?
No, we have weekly sprints and the vaguest idea of when bigger projects will land.
7. Do you have a spec?
I haven't seen a real spec in years.
8. Do programmers have quiet working conditions?
Well, I work from home, but all the fancy offices are open-plan.
10. Do you have testers?
Not for any of the stuff I work on, and I don't know if we have them at all.
11. Do you do hallway usability testing?
Absolutely not.
So that's 5/12. How many companies you know would get 11 or 12?