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Re:Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software... by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @06:33AM (#38189019)
> After writing countless emails to convince him to fix his code, and wondering why they wouldn't just fire him and save everyone else some time, the CTO announced that the guy was now promoted to team lead. :)

It is. commonly known that some good developers make poor leads. Could some poor developers make decent leads?

After all, most serion management has never seen an if-clause, are they any better than this guy?

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Re:Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software... by bbarnett on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @06:37AM (#38189058)
Maybe. But if the accounting is accurate, this person refused valid, and urgent criticism. They refused all input, and eefused to care that there was an issue.

This would make a very poor team lead. Imagine this person taking the wrong path, then refusing to acknowledge so. Imagine them upset that "their" path was being constructively criticized.

This is how companies go bankrupt, how months or years of work result in garbage.

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Re:Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software... by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @07:29AM (#38189516)
Maybe thats exactly how management acts in this firm?

They looked at complaints about this dude's behaviour and go "clearly one of us!" ^^

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Re:Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software... by guappa on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @08:18AM (#38189922)
Oh yeah the account is accurate.

At some point I had to use a C library written by him.

Due to segmentation faults I decided to just rewrite it by myself (in less than 200 lines).

He holds a grudge against me because of that.

When I showed with benchmarks that a sleep() in a loop in the main server thread is not a great idea he said "don't fix what isn't broken".

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Re:Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software... by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @10:56AM (#38192204)
djamn, this is painfull
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