Organizing complexity is the most important skill in software development

Re:Organizing complexity is the most important skill in soft... by crdb on Monday June 22, 2015 @12:11PM (#9759291)

I've come across this a few times. The managers' thoughts were probably along the lines of "great, I got all my code cleaned up/the hard part of my product built for the expensive rate, now I can fire him and pass on maintenance to the cheap guys over there".

And of course your thoughts were "I'm going to work extra hard initially, which will make a good impression and get the product built on time and all the tasks automated, and then I can coast and it will still be worth their money."

The manager doesn't care because when your code starts rotting due to bad maintenance and badly added features (or just the fact that nobody has bothered taking it over), he'll already have been promoted or changed companies.

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Re:Organizing complexity is the most important skill in soft... by moron4hire on Monday June 22, 2015 @12:15PM (#9759312)

Except this was a 5-person company that could have used all the help they could get. They styled themselves a "startup", but I don't know how valid it is to call yourself a startup after 8 years. They had me very cheaply, but I think they knew I was never going fit their "company culture" of lying to clients.

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Re:Organizing complexity is the most important skill in soft... by crdb on Monday June 22, 2015 @12:21PM (#9759358)

Oh, I completely agree - this is terrible for the company.

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