Re:The software industry is going through the “disposable pl...
by Chris2048 on Saturday August 22, 2020 @10:01AM
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Also, if it's maintaining a big legacy system, you have to ask: who did the previous dev leave?
The answer might be, because it got so difficult maintain, it was no longer worth it. And if the guy with experience of the system found it no longer worth it, you with little are unlikely to find it worth it. Beware the system abandoned by the long term maintainer, and then maintained after that by a string of short-term new hires. At best, the corp keeps increasing pay for every new hire in the hope they stay.
> had some leeway to also experiment
The idea behind the original "long-term professional" was a little autonomy for this kind of thing. Sadly, most corps refuse to classify developers as anything more important than cost centres, commodity resources, etc. Increasingly, they are contract hires, or easily-replaced temps (Accenture etc) and stuff like Agile abstractions, non-silo-ing, overstrict business time-management / task "sign-off"; and the trend of offering new hires better terms during negotiation, than improved terms to existing hires to keep them happy thereby encouraging no more than 2-3 years at any company to best improve your salary.
The answer might be, because it got so difficult maintain, it was no longer worth it. And if the guy with experience of the system found it no longer worth it, you with little are unlikely to find it worth it. Beware the system abandoned by the long term maintainer, and then maintained after that by a string of short-term new hires. At best, the corp keeps increasing pay for every new hire in the hope they stay.
> had some leeway to also experiment
The idea behind the original "long-term professional" was a little autonomy for this kind of thing. Sadly, most corps refuse to classify developers as anything more important than cost centres, commodity resources, etc. Increasingly, they are contract hires, or easily-replaced temps (Accenture etc) and stuff like Agile abstractions, non-silo-ing, overstrict business time-management / task "sign-off"; and the trend of offering new hires better terms during negotiation, than improved terms to existing hires to keep them happy thereby encouraging no more than 2-3 years at any company to best improve your salary.