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counterpoint My last CTO was hired after me, the org was hyperscaling. When i was interviewed I was told that the company is banking on JS and that's what we w
by zeroq 10mo ago
counterpoint
My last CTO was hired after me, the org was hyperscaling.
When i was interviewed I was told that the company is banking on JS and that's what we were doing on both ends [1]
When CTO was hired he made a walk through the office, greeting every team, he stopped at our cubicle and asked what we were doing - I told him basics - and he said "you should be doing that in Java".
Few weeks later he had a townhall presentation. He came to a room full of people, plug in his computer and the screen started playing a pornhub flix.
He didn't got fired. I was.
- Aeolun 10mo agoI’m not sure it’s really a counterpoint, but still an interesting story (interesting, because it’s not really funny, is it?)
- mewpmewp2 10mo agoWhy did you get fired?
- fransje26 10mo agoMaybe the p-hub Java player was buggy and shouldn't have auto-played?
- ozim 10mo agoNot the OP you asked but. I think it is sour grapes that new CTO didn’t know shit and even did full embarrassment on display - yet tech guy who knew his job was let go most likely with his team just because CTO thought whatever they were doing should be in Java.
- amy_petrik 10mo agoalso a sense of broken promises to the CTOs fault javascript coder joined taking the company's statement in good faith "everything will be javascript, the front and back end both" and happily did it New CTO joins, warmly visits all, dude who joined in good faith parrots his understanding of what we're doing to the CTO. CTO reacts "NO IT MUST BE JAVA" and this is a flex new CTOs love to do -rewrite everything- often to failure javascript coder now arguably may no longer be needed if he's not a java programmer, maybe CTO is bringing in their own guys, gets canned.. gets canned by a clown who (a) is watching porn during work and (b) shows it to everybody and (c) leadership above the CTO saw this and did nothing
- saghm 10mo agoI'm honestly not sure I understand what this has to do with what I said.