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No, but not relevant. What is the point of working at a startup if you’re dealing with millions of lines of legacy code ? Isn’t the whole point of startups to
by nujabe 1mo ago
No, but not relevant.
What is the point of working at a startup if you’re dealing with millions of lines of legacy code ? Isn’t the whole point of startups to create & innovate with a clean slate and modern tools?
- extr 1mo agoNo, actually. The point is to build a profitable business.
- sarchertech 1mo agoHow long has your startup been around? I’ve worked at plenty of startups over the past 20 years. Including one that was still calling themselves a startup 10 years out. The org I work at now was a startup before my tech giant employer acquired them. We have a very bloated and very profitable 8 year old codebase that is barely 500k LOC. I’ve never seen a startup with a multi million line legacy codebase.
- dgellow 1mo agoThey may have forked something
- sarchertech 1mo agoDefinitely possible, but up thread they wrote: >”Have you worked at many startups?” In response to a question about a legacy codebase at a startup. That implies that they think whatever they are doing is common. And forking a multi million line codebase and heavily developing it isn’t common for startups.
- dgellow 1mo agoYou’re right, very confusing thread
- fatata123 1mo ago[dead]
- chris_money202 1mo agoI don't know if that's the whole point, but I agree with the sentiment, why would a startup be working in legacy code and where would that code come from if this is truly the start of something. OP might just be working at a small software company or for one that broke from a bigger one and is now "startup" like?