[serial_dev]

This was / is not my experience. I worked mainly on frontend code, web and mobile app.

As a developer, I got the task, an “order” that something needs to be added. Best case scenario, my product owner / manager came up with it, because they talk to customers and noticed it would be helpful. Worse case scenario, someone else above them told them to do it because “we need it”, and I just hope the product person on my team properly vetted the request. Worst case scenario, the “order” came down to our team, and the managers push to the individual contributors and there is no room for discussion at this point anymore and an arbitrary (made up) deadline that is somehow always unrealistic.

[aDyslecticCrow]

Oof, ye i have heard about this kind of company culture. I think front-end and app development is particularly prone to cheap and dirty iteration. Bugs are cheap and non-consequential. New features are visible, fast to add, and make higher-ups happy.

I work in industrial embedded C. So perhaps i have weird expectations about the level of pedantry. A 10 row code change may take week to discuss, and likely require an open issue and test-case to get through.

At worst, a small 100 row code-change may require a 8000$ independent re-certification of the device before being fully pulled into master.

[LtWorf]

Yeah frontend don't care about correctness. I've seen entire websites go entirely blank because I clicked somewhere and that triggered a js error and that means delete the whole DOM.