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Senior developer wants job security having an unsupportable project or two doesn’t matter because 99% of the job is stretching deadline to line up with vacation
by screenoridesagb 3y ago
Senior developer wants job security having an unsupportable project or two doesn’t matter because 99% of the job is stretching deadline to line up with vacations.
- dagss 3y agoMaking projects supportable is good. Not distinguishing between objectively bad code, and code that you just don't understand right away because you didn't write it yourself and you do not yet have enough training to skim and understand other's codebases yet is not.
- jnovek 3y agoNot sure where you’re working, but your senior devs are quite misinformed. Every layoff I’ve witnessed sliced quite a bit off the top because they’re the most expensive. Absolutely no regard for who was maintaining what legacy projects, often leading to months of setbacks while the remaining engineering staff tries to understand a critical yet unsexy tool or service that no one else was willing to touch. Having “special” projects is in no way a form of job security.
- screenoridesagb 3y agoIf your business is operating like this it’s not sustainable. You need 10 developers for every project so the senior developers can complain about meetings instead of exposing themselves to code review. That helps there supposed knowledge.