Good engineers write bad code at big companies

Re:Good engineers write bad code at big companies by chanux on Saturday November 29, 2025 @01:59AM (#46085658)

I know how to fix this but I'm not "allowed to" can eat away at you easily. Then there are things that I know how I might fix but I wouldn't realistically be able to because it's all a lot to take on, there will almost never be enough time and hands to get it done, within the set constraints.

This is due to the way how incentives are aligned. Systems that are powering things for, say a decade at least but worked on Quarterly basis.

Why is this alive and well, then? Because it doesn't actually matter as long as money keeps rolling in. It is also possible that the losses caused by or efficiency not achieved do not show up in the accounts.

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Re:Good engineers write bad code at big companies by phito on Saturday November 29, 2025 @03:47AM (#46086058)

>I know how to fix this but I'm not "allowed to" can eat away at you easily.

This really is the worst, and that's why I left my first job. Funnily enough, I just took that job back after a few years but I am now the lead and sole developer on it, I'm having the time of my life doing what I've always wanted to do back then, and seeing the product now flourish.

The bad code didn't really matter, it was the fact that I was not allowed to improve it and forced to build new features on top of crappy code that made me quit.

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