Re:Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer
by scarface74 on Friday June 07, 2019 @10:27AM
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You are making the assumption that most people care about n+1 where the code gets so bad it’s hard to maintain.
- the average tenure for a software developer at a company is 1.5 - 3 years, by the time things get that bad, its someone else’s problem.
- the business folks at a startup just care about throwing something together long enough to get their next round of funding or the exit.
- no one gets promoted by having code that is easy to maintain over the long term. They get promoted by releasing the new and shiny - not maintenance work. See Google.
- the average tenure for a software developer at a company is 1.5 - 3 years, by the time things get that bad, its someone else’s problem.
- the business folks at a startup just care about throwing something together long enough to get their next round of funding or the exit.
- no one gets promoted by having code that is easy to maintain over the long term. They get promoted by releasing the new and shiny - not maintenance work. See Google.