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Re:One common behavior seen in “mature” software engineers by ericmcer on Monday February 06, 2023 @03:48PM (#34684109)
Yeah the only way to get rewarded for working on resiliency like this is if you do it very loudly. If you spend an extra day or two refactoring a feature so that it is more robust you will be looked at poorly versus the engineer who slaps a few more conditionals onto it to keep it working.

Raise the issue with higher ups, maybe create some fancy charts about lost engineering time in the future, spin up specific tickets for refactoring, turn it into a two week project and you will get recognition. Management loves a chart about improving X by N% almost more than a shiny feature.

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Re:One common behavior seen in “mature” software engineers by JohnFen on Monday February 06, 2023 @05:16PM (#34685270)
Most of the places I've worked weren't like this, but a couple were. I quit those positions on the grounds that I was clearly a poor cultural fit.
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Re:One common behavior seen in “mature” software engineers by nonethewiser on Monday February 06, 2023 @05:31PM (#34685429)
If they dont like that you took more time to refactor instead of bandaid, they arent going to respond well to you boasting about it for weeks.
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