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> This experience fits a pattern I keep running into with European business-facing APIs and services. Something is always a little bit broken. Documentation is
by looperhacks 8mo ago
> This experience fits a pattern I keep running into with European business-facing APIs and services. Something is always a little bit broken. Documentation is incomplete, or packaged as a nasty PDF, edge cases are unhandled, error messages are misleading, and when you report issues, the support team doesn't have the technical depth to understand what you're telling them.
I can definitely confirm that this is a common thing. But I think this is a "small org"-problem more than a "European business"-problem. Apparently, the company has somewhere between 500 and 1000 employees (I couldn't find good data, sadly). With a size like this, the "support" is probably outsourced (meaning they don't know anything), there are maybe 100 engineers (probably less) and the mailing is either done via a third-party or set up by an Admin that left three years ago.
Without any basis, I will speculate that you will notice this more in Europe because there is simply no company at the size of Stripe or similar.
- bojan 8mo agoWhile there is some truth in while you saying, I have to say that from my European perspective all the big American companies feel enormously bloated. For example, I've recently learned thats Atlassian has 13000 employees, and I have to ask myself, what do all those people do?
- TheAceOfHearts 8mo agoA minor correction, but Atlassian was founded in Australia, and their global headquarters is still in Australia.
- warkdarrior 8mo agoI bet Atlassian's email notifications never bounced.
- hermanzegerman 8mo agoThey're busy hardcoding passwords into their source code https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/atlassian-confluence-hardcoded-password-was-leaked-patch-now/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/atlassian-con...