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Not unheard of, unfortunately. Funny enough, in a fintech I worked for, developers and QAs actually used their own personal credit cards and bank accounts for
by whstl 2y ago
Not unheard of, unfortunately.
Funny enough, in a fintech I worked for, developers and QAs actually used their own personal credit cards and bank accounts for testing.
Interestingly, they also needed to test ApplePay, but the laptops didn't allow for adding their personal iCloud accounts. So someone in the development team got the "admin" password and distributed among devs and QA team, and they all had unprotected laptops. They probably still do.
- wruza 2y agoI wonder if NOT providing a separate, exclusive account/card/sim etc to a developer is a common trope in fintech. I avoided linking my personal things like hell, and they avoided giving me a damn immutable plastic that would work/get paid for more than a few days. So much friction just because something stopped working or had to get back into oven and they had no replacement at hand. I even had to maintain a separate table for tracking personal balance-replenishing expenses cause no one’s gonna do it immediately. The same people who were chirping about the importance of experimenting, prototyping and not minding any expenses under $$$ or something all day.
- whstl 2y agoIt's a ouroboros of bureaucracy getting in the way of security and security causing the bureaucracy itself.