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by embedded 2847 days ago
Not a chance at our 3-yr old startup. That's less than a summer project, and nobody expects much from summer interns. Maybe you haven't written highly async Go services in containers orchestrated by kubernetes. You would spent those two months just ramping up on our code base and customer issues just to be productive. And if by some miracle you actually produced production code, nobody wants the author of that code to immediately walk out the door. Experienced programmers understand that 80% of the cost is in the maintenance over the lifetime of the code. That is a lot easier to do if the author is still around.