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by protomyth 1592 days ago
I've had two companies that switched technology between recruiting me and the start of my employment. It was a bit irritating, but provided an interesting way to learn something new on someone else's dime.

I've also been at a place where I was not allowed to program in C, but had to do all the code reviews for the people programming in C. The "logic" was that since I was doing the code reviews, I shouldn't program in C since no one would review my code. I sometimes wonder about how I encounter these situations a bit too often.

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That sounds very strange. Your code would be reviewed by the other people writing C code. Were those other people much less experienced than you?
I was 26 at the time, so I would guess not, but some of the code was problematic. It was very strange.