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Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre by gliese1337 on Saturday December 14, 2019 @11:15PM (#21794412)
My first six months of employment at my current job consisted of going from one project to another that the C-levels listed as "a top priority for the company"--like, called all-hands meetings and told everyone about this great thing and how important the people working on it were--and then decided to cancel.

Two years later, that still happens from time to time.

So, from my point of view, it looks much more like businesses pay developers to write software to be thrown away. Which I guess is fine with me, as long as my paycheck keeps coming....

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Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre by BlueTemplar on Sunday December 15, 2019 @06:53AM (#21795788)
Honestly, isn't it bothering you that they are wasting your time ?
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Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre by gliese1337 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:58PM (#21817254)
Yes. But they give me a regular paycheck and extremely generous vacation and sick days, and nobody else I've interviewed with or been contacted by recruiters for can match those benefits... so I stay. At least until my RSUs vest.
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Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre by zomglings on Sunday December 15, 2019 @12:13PM (#21797332)
Sounds like you work at a startup that was very young when you first joined.

If this is the case, did any of those projects contribute to you guys still being around now, two years later?

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Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre by gliese1337 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:57PM (#21817237)
Nope. I work for a major corporation that owns its own entire office building for headquarters and operates in over 30 states.

None of those projects contributed to still being around 2 years later, but one of them (if simulations based on prior years' data are assumed to be reasonably accurate) would've improved revenue on one of our sales channels by approximately 30% if it had actually been put into production....

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