Re:Car dealerships revert to pens and paper after cyberattac...
by y-c-o-m-b on Monday June 24, 2024 @02:32PM
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I've worked in many different companies (healthcare, real estate, investment research, payroll, semi-conductor, streaming media, and more). I am currently in FAANG. All of your points pretty much apply across the board. Especially the one about tests, that is nearly universal. Outsourcing is a recipe for amplifying all of those negatives though and always has been. It won't be long before they start bringing those jobs back here again for that reason. Happens every time.
It was a massive shit show.
- Tests? Useless and garbage. Only used to pump their code coverage reports to show to management
- Design? Non existent and a hacked together code base across a half dozen low bid contractors, probably junior engineers at best
- CI? Dedicated test environments? Nah, costs too much money. Just “use docker to test on local and deploy directly to prod”
- Documentation? Besides very basic instructions on how to deploy locally … good luck
- backup and recovery? Nah who has time for that. Just work on the features that {big client} wants
- code quality? I wish there was a “god” class, but in this code base they managed to create a universal class or “macro service”
Management was a mess. Just a mouthpiece for sales or executives. No backbone. No vision. Just “alright we just need to get through the quarter” mentality.