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Re:Is engineering management bullshit? by candiddevmike on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @10:19AM (#32750974)
They don't want engineers to unionize because the first thing they'd do is pause feature work and fix all the tech debt.
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Re:Is engineering management bullshit? by leeoniya on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @11:42AM (#32752124)
> fix all the tech debt.

lol, okay, maybe before you have a couple $50k/yr revenue customers that rely on that legacy/tech-debt to run their business.

ask windows/office devs or linux kernel devs how often they get to fix all that tech debt.

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