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Companies are more likely to reward engineers than scold them for pulling in that new “shiny library” that solves the problem they never actually had. Perhaps
by jrmg 2y ago
Companies are more likely to reward engineers than scold them for pulling in that new “shiny library” that solves the problem they never actually had.
Perhaps I’m sheltered: is this really true in people’s experience?
- swiftcoder 2y agoDepends on the company. Amazon had a pretty bad case of NIH, Meta tended to embrace open-source (and as often as not, transitioned to embrace-extend-extinguish if they liked it enough)
- pdimitar 2y agoYes, it's extremely common, think at least 95% of the time. Time to delivery is the main metric for almost any company that ships software.