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by moremetadata 1217 days ago
Something that was managing the largest construction project in the world amongst other building projects. Had plenty of devs on it, not junior but highly expert. Gave them 12months of my time to achieve their objectives, but it became clear the code was a can of worms, fix one thing, something else broke because of too many different coding styles. Told them it needed a rewrite from the ground up, standards put in place that sort of thing. They agreed but wanted it done in 3months, told them impossible need more time than that, they wouldn't agree so I walked.
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Sounds like bad codebase compounded by a toxic team. A lethal combo.
Bad management who dont understand programming, which is sadly replicated across many companies, and then people wonder why its so easy to get hacked. eyesroll