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Re:Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come ba... by Jochim on Monday May 15, 2023 @04:28AM (#35945233)
In my experience, managers are the ones pushing developers to skip tests, bug reports, etc.

Most of them are content to simply pile on new functionality, without any concept of polish, refinement, or how allocating time for technical work can speed up the delivery of that functionality.

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Re:Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come ba... by noisy_boy on Monday May 15, 2023 @04:57AM (#35945391)
Most of the time, this short-circuits:

  understanding importance of code quality/testing
  && willingness to allocate dedicated time to achieve code quality
  && having ability/position/power to withstand management's pressure on just deliveries
In over twenty years of my career, the value was "true" only twice.
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Re:Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come ba... by grepfru_it on Monday May 15, 2023 @05:55AM (#35945787)
also when that value becomes "true", pay tends to be below the average
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Re:Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come ba... by noisy_boy on Monday May 15, 2023 @06:03AM (#35945847)
fwiw, it was wayy below average for me the first time, and was wayy above average the second :)
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Re:Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come ba... by bombolo on Monday May 15, 2023 @07:19AM (#35946418)
Depends on the manager and on the developer.

I've seen "senior" developers that are very happy to skip writing tests (or write useless tests that basically just return true) even though their management was happy to allocate the time to do decent testing.

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