Re:The undocumented Android change that led to aCropalypse w...
by mangamadaiyan on Friday March 31, 2023 @08:34PM
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> I felt terrible about it and honestly believe I should have been fired for it.
> Yes, management rushed me, but they're not the ones that wrote the code
If you felt so strongly about it, you could have quit. Why wait on management to fire you?
It's fairly easy to blame engineers for everything that goes wrong. Engineering doesn't work in a vacuum, the system and processes have to have guardrails in place that prevent lapses in quality, including security, from reaching the customer. When such guardrails have been systematically dismantled in favour of "improving productivity", the management - which removed the guardrails - becomes the culpable entity.
If you felt so strongly about it, you could have quit. Why wait on management to fire you?
It's fairly easy to blame engineers for everything that goes wrong. Engineering doesn't work in a vacuum, the system and processes have to have guardrails in place that prevent lapses in quality, including security, from reaching the customer. When such guardrails have been systematically dismantled in favour of "improving productivity", the management - which removed the guardrails - becomes the culpable entity.