Why? Because they're hot on the stock market since the pandemic? Nokia's SW was the same kind of shitshow when it was dominant. IIRC a long time ago someone on HN wrote here that compiling Symbian OS at Nokia took 2 whole days and Nokia management saw no problem with that.
To me, it's exactly what I expect from a HW company, from personal experience. SW is seen just as a necessary evil, another item on the BoM. Oh, and there's a bunch of useless processes designed as jobs programs to keep some useless managers employed, where each of them needs to review your change and give their green light despite them not being up to date on the technical side for >10 years.
I know this because it's exactly the same at another major Dutch semiconductor spin-off from Philipps I was at in a past life.
Just because ASML is hot right now, doesn't mean they value and employ top SW talent, because they don't sell SW, they sell HW and that's what their customers value, and so ASML values physicists and traditional engineers, not SW devs.
a bunch of useless processes, if only.. they started using Scaled Agile (or SAFe) a few years ago, which slows down software development by a factor of five or more and adds non-productive fulltime roles such as 'Release Train Engineer', 'Scrum Master' and 'product owner'.
They are physicists and hardware folks, right? I would expect messy code written by convoluted processes for nightmare applications, that somehow works.
Why? Because they're hot on the stock market since the pandemic? Nokia's SW was the same kind of shitshow when it was dominant. IIRC a long time ago someone on HN wrote here that compiling Symbian OS at Nokia took 2 whole days and Nokia management saw no problem with that.
To me, it's exactly what I expect from a HW company, from personal experience. SW is seen just as a necessary evil, another item on the BoM. Oh, and there's a bunch of useless processes designed as jobs programs to keep some useless managers employed, where each of them needs to review your change and give their green light despite them not being up to date on the technical side for >10 years.
I know this because it's exactly the same at another major Dutch semiconductor spin-off from Philipps I was at in a past life.
Just because ASML is hot right now, doesn't mean they value and employ top SW talent, because they don't sell SW, they sell HW and that's what their customers value, and so ASML values physicists and traditional engineers, not SW devs.