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by swat535
18 days ago
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You get promoted and let other people deal with the mess. The truth is that no one in management cares about your perfect code, they only care about the projects you deliver, the features you push out and the meeting KPIS.. Your customers don't care about your perfect abstractions either, they just want the button to work when it's clicked. You can always argue about maintenance, but who is going to listen? By the time it's an issue, the business is throwing money at the problem to make it go away. Heck, even major security issues are a nothing burger.. I've lost count on the number of breaches big companies have had in the last decade.. Such is the plight of our industry. |
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I don't think most developers care about perfect code (if such thing exists). What they care about is maintainability, so that the project is delivered on time, features keep getting pushed and KPIS can be actually met. And that the customers have a working button.
Instead we got projects that keeps being dragged around (until it's put out of its misery), half baked features, and KPIs that are twisted until they're barely looks like what was stated at the beginning of the quarter. And the customer is complaining about another button breaking.
What I do is never ask for permission, because that's an engineering concern, not a product/management one. I just tidy the code I work on, one step at a time.