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It does happen that the new leader ends up saying out loud "everything we have is terrible," which is easily taken as "everyone who worked on it is terrible."
by shermantanktop 2y ago
It does happen that the new leader ends up saying out loud "everything we have is terrible," which is easily taken as "everyone who worked on it is terrible." And to be fair, sometimes that's true. And sometimes it's not true but the leader wants to bring over their crew of loyalists and needs to make room somehow.
Long-term ownership and careerist jockeying don't go well together.
- jonahx 2y agoAh, that's definitely true. But that feels like an orthogonal concern to you being an existing dev working on legacy stuff vs greenfield stuff... unless the new boss likes the greenfield stuff for some reason. What you are talking about is more of an ever-present possibility of "new management fallout" in almost any field.
- mianos 2y agoMy recent experience is that a lot of the system was not as good as it could have been because it's a hard problem. The company got bought out and all the new bosses come in and say all the existing code and way things are done is crap. Then, a year later, with everyone sacked and new people brought in, once again, these guys say the same thing and promise they are the top guns to fix it all up. I just checked out on the third round.