Re:Big Tech is using layoffs to crush worker power
by jack_riminton on Monday January 30, 2023 @11:06AM
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Things brings about another question. Will the change in economic climate encourage these companies to ditch over-complicated Rube Goldberg machine stacks in favour of ones that allow Juniors to grind out CRUD. One can but hope
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Re:Big Tech is using layoffs to crush worker power
by lightbendover on Monday January 30, 2023 @11:37AM
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I doubt it. Who is going to get a promotion with a sane architecture?
Re:Big Tech is using layoffs to crush worker power
by haswell on Monday January 30, 2023 @12:05PM
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I can’t help but feel this misunderstands why systems become complex, and conflates simplicity with sanity.
Ditching an architecture also directly implies adopting a new one. If juniors are at the forefront of that, I don’t think the resulting architecture will somehow get magically simpler.
Architecture is a topic to be debated, no doubt. But if anything, I’d expect the departure of senior talent to solidify complexity, not enable some magical escape from it. The risk of changing a system goes up significantly the moment the people who understand the system walk out the door.