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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by maximus-decimus on Sunday October 30, 2022 @02:23AM (#33391721)
People leave jobs. If you're working at a company that's decades old, the people who did create the bug might have left the company 20 years ago.

I don't know for your job, but at mine code is supposed to stick to teams rather than people, so even if the people didn't leave the company, they probably changed teams and don't own the code anymore.

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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by criley2 on Sunday October 30, 2022 @07:29AM (#33393475)
Hard agree. The only case where "You fix all your own bugs" makes sense is a small company or start-up... but it's also a bad idea. Every engineer should get up to speed on every feature until it is no longer feasible/reasonable to do so.

We intentionally cross-train and work bugs in "others code" (we do not assign code ownership, after I review and it is merged, it's is my code now, for as long as I work here lol).

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