[yzfr12006]

The article is not only on point but it reflects a big problem in the tech companies.

Businesses loose millions and they just burn cash because of toxic and arrogant developments teams.

I can quadruple the sales of the company that I work for but you cannot push any change through the arrogant development team who don't give a chance to other people, it is so pathetic.

[amarkman]

The problem in tech companies is arrogant and clueless management that treats developers like dirt and blames them for everything.

[JustSomeNobody]

Trust me, there are arrogant developers out there and they suck to work with. They treat code and design reviews as chest beating exercises. They refuse to work on anything remotely legacy. If their idea or design gets questioned in any way they get loud and obnoxious. You can't mentor these devs at all.

[0xDEFC0DE]

>They refuse to work on anything remotely legacy.

You have to be careful what you're good at. If senior devs/management sees you're good at legacy, they might task you with that as a majority of your time. Then your career plans get sidetracked because you won't have as much time working on the stuff that you want to work on.

Some developers are okay with legacy, but if they aren't, it's not surprising. Some legacy stuff is absolutely horrible to work with - it devolves into "get-in-get-out" fix mentality (and security issues usually get swept under the rug). Some legacy products are good though and require minimal tribal knowledge to actually work on.

This has happened to me twice at two separate positions: bait-and-switches about what I'll be working on because more senior members wanted to offload the legacy work themselves.

The general arrogance is really a separate trait from willingness to work on legacy IMHO and I agree on those points.

[wallacoloo]

I agree with all but the last sentence. Every dev has a different background. Every dev needs to adjust to a different style of work wherever they go. Some will figure it out on their own. For the rest, I find it hard to believe that adding a mentor into the picture doesn’t improve the odds.

[zamalek]

> you cannot push any change through the arrogant development team

I worked at a company that did this. Eventually customers start demanding stability as a feature. There is a huge difference between arrogance and wisdom.

[loco5niner]

> I can quadruple the sales of the company that I work for but you cannot push any change through the arrogant development team who don't give a chance to other people, it is so pathetic.

Ummm... are you sure, THEY are the arrogant ones?

I'm sensing some irony here.

[LfLxfxxLxfxx]

> Businesses loose millions and they just burn cash because of toxic and arrogant developments teams

If a business is treated like that, maybe it should quit its current development team and try to get a job at another.