| > If they decide to sacrifice quality for speed that's their problem/decision. [...] Then watch it blow up, or maybe it will actually be good enough. You apparently have never been sued for your managers decisions. Here is how that was for me: My manager released something I worked on, despite me saying that it would need a few more months of work. Apparently that would have made this unprofitable, so he disregarded my advice and they released it anyways. I joined the company when this project was already a Year late. So it was not surprising that this project was close to costing more than the customer would pay. Except for a few interns, I was the newest dev in the company, so I didn't push super hard for more work on this project. However I was the most experienced dev on the team, so I should have pushed more. Or should have at least got it in writing that they decided against my recommendation. When it eventually crashed and caused a 30 minutes outage I was fired. Why? Because it was my code that was the problem of course. Never mind the fact that I told them it is not ready and that the error wasn't even code that I WROTE. Some intern wrote that part. I wasn't a lead or manager and had nothing to do with it. They then tried to sue me for more money then they ever paid me. 30 minutes of factory outage can be very expensive which they of course tried to recuperate out of my bank account. I was very lucky that I had a good lawyer. Actually I could only afford a very junior lawyer, but he was sick on the day of trial and asked his professor to go instead. I was probably super lucky with that one. |