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>No manager can make me read your code as a requirement of my job unless you've proven (by certification) yourself to be at a level where less than 5% of profes
by zeteo 14y ago
>No manager can make me read your code as a requirement of my job unless you've proven (by certification) yourself to be at a level where less than 5% of professional programmers currently are
You mean if you were hired by Facebook in '04 you'd have refused to read their source code?
- michaelochurch 14y agoWell, that certification that I'm talking about doesn't exist right now, so... we kind of have to guess. No one can get away with saying, "I won't read crap code" and remain employed, but that problem is exactly what I'd like to see some professionalism to fix. I am fucking sick of bad code. To answer more directly, I'm not good at picking startups (0 for 2) and I doubt I would have foreseen Facebook's success. I didn't, although maybe if I knew the company better I'd have been more of a believer. My general answer is: No, I wouldn't take a startup job where the bulk of my time would be spent reading other peoples' code, unless the code quality were extremely high.