[martimarkov]

Having worked with EJ I just wanted to point out their system are insanely fragile. They never notified us about breaking changes and the system itself would go down multiple times. There was no CS when something goes wrong. And this was their B2B api. And from talking to ppl who were working in EJ a lot of things were being done on excel spreadsheets and emailed across.

Just wanted to give this info as a sort of reference. I remember when I first found out how they worked that I was so shocked that it wasn’t more of public knowledge

[altacc]

Interesting to hear, although a lot of companies still rely on emailing documents to each other. A few years ago I interviewed with a consultancy that provided a lot of development work for easyJet. They were operating under an old model of both work organisation and technology and not very keen to change. Interview went OK until I met the company CTO, who's personality left a lot to be desired. We ended up having a heated discussion about the need to innovate, or not in his case. Unsurprisingly, I never heard back from them.

[martimarkov]

I think I even know the person you are talking about and yeah... :D I do feel that there is a culture in these big OLD (=old ibm mentality) where there is no need to innovate and it always costs a lot to do things right. The only reason they do is because some engineers are really pushing for it and making it happen.

[scoutt]

But they "take issues of security extremely seriously"...

Typical. When are we going to get tired of the same PR, damage-controlling, bullshit that we all know are blatant lies?

EDIT: we need a GDPR hero.