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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by regularfry on Monday February 17, 2025 @11:47AM (#43080804)
It depends on your goals, though. Depending on the company, that can be a very good way to be treated as a cost centre to be minimised.
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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by MassiveQuasar on Monday February 17, 2025 @11:56AM (#43080918)
Yes, let's minimize the only dev working on legacy software.
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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by SR2Z on Monday February 17, 2025 @12:07PM (#43081053)
Do you think that software becomes poorly understood and maintained because the company treats it as a prestigious job and rewards people for working on it?
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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by ethbr1 on Monday February 17, 2025 @12:17PM (#43081179)
Has said many a manager who thinks developers are fungible.
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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by gecko6 on Monday February 17, 2025 @12:39PM (#43081418)
This is how I got laid off. Working on legacy software, sole person on the team, eventually management decided that it could be replaced by AI or some such pixie dust.
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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by spiffytech on Monday February 17, 2025 @12:54PM (#43081573)
Legacy software with a single dev can be on the fast track to getting shut down. If it was still a business priority, they'd be throwing more resources at it.
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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by scarface_74 on Monday February 17, 2025 @01:42PM (#43081991)
I don’t think the parent comment is saying that should be the case. But the way that corporate culture works, it is definitely a career killer.
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