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by fugazithehaxoar 2263 days ago
This was my exact experience working at Nike 4 years ago. In this scenario, I was the guy sitting. I got this type of "talking to" when I submitted a bug ticket because jQuery was being loaded 3 times on the same page.

The Nike.com software group was over 1,000 employees working on a microservices mess that performed horribly on the customer side. They could have built a much better product with about 50 competent software professionals.

2 comments

Brooks's Law in effect, same as in all the other places where managers believe that 9 women working together could make a baby in one month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law
Webpack 5's modules federation ;)