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I might be the weird exception, started in the db/OS/backend, and ended up in web front end and mobile. What I found is that front end is closer to what the bu

by ww520 14y ago

I might be the weird exception, started in the db/OS/backend, and ended up in web front end and mobile. What I found is that front end is closer to what the business clients see and what they would pay. Business users really can't see and don't care what the backend does as long as it works.

GFischer 14y ago
Sadly, that's true :( . If the IT executives don't defend the work of the backend people, they're screwed. I worked for close to 2 years on a new backend for the insurance company I work for. A new, street-smart guy started getting cozy with management (instead of doing his assigned work), went behind the back of the IT manager and convinced another department to give him some money to build a colourful new frontend (which basically called the new backend and displayed the results, the money went into design and showed), and the company ended up firing the (pretty clueless) IT manager and putting the new guy in charge, over the guys that worked on the backend that made everything possible (both our fault and the clueless IT managers' that this happened, but it still sucks).