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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by pmarreck on Monday February 17, 2025 @12:17PM (#43081180)
if you've built up respect at the company and speak your mind regarding the maintenance vulnerability, the new crew should pay attention. if they don't, then you're screwed anyway, but so is the company.

source: endured this while working at a startup that was bought out by SFDC. Kept my principles, but lost the job. /shrug

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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by stego-tech on Monday February 17, 2025 @11:21PM (#43086049)
Yup, you and Shermantanktop get what I was asking perfectly. Seeking confirmation I hadn’t overlooked anything that I could’ve done better, but you’re both dead-on.

The irony is that for those of us who enjoy maintaining, improving, and eventually replacing legacy stuff (code, systems, infrastructure, etc), what we really want is often just stability in career - hence the moat. It means it’s cheaper to keep us around for the long haul than rehiring us again at current market rates every few years, especially if we’re making ends meet with a high quality of life. But that’d mean focusing on the long term, which I don’t see many companies doing in general.

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