News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Employees: looking for “the great boss who cares about their development”. Parent comment

Re:Employees: looking for “the great boss who cares about th... by distracted828 on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @09:47AM (#11167092)
> failure teaches you which mistakes to avoid next time

As a recent grad who has been fired from two jobs, I would be afraid to join a poorly written project because I would worry that I would fail and then be fired.

Learning how to be successful is pretty important and teaches you things you cannot learn from lurching from failure to failure.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Employees: looking for “the great boss who cares about th... by jschwartzi on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @10:03AM (#11167216)
Even the jobs with poorly-written codebases teach you a lot. Only they're teaching you through experience what is or isn't maintainable.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Employees: looking for “the great boss who cares about th... by distracted828 on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @10:53AM (#11167617)
Sure, but at a certain point, you need to learn a method to writing a maintainable codebase. Otherwise you never become capable of building a successful project.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Employees: looking for “the great boss who cares about th... by stuxnet79 on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @11:33AM (#11167982)
How did you fail?
[ Parent | on HN ]