[mesozoic]

Observationally this seems why sales driven organizations might have trouble keeping good developers. They force the build up of so much technical debt and never give the time to fix it that the good developers just leave rather than maintain the nightmare of code they've had to write.

[themodelplumber]

This weakness in sales-driven organizations applies to other types of employees, too. I used to be a graphic designer for one such organization, and it was next to impossible to create marketing collateral based on design standards; they'd rather buy it in a template kit from an office supply store than wait for a better plan to unfold. I later watched as they completely missed a huge opportunity to go upmarket with the proprietary hardware technology that the product staff developed. They were so obsessed with what was right in front of them that they became embroiled in tactics without strategy, and only the amazing breadth and depth of the market allowed them to continue making a profit without punishing them too severely.

[0xdeadbeefbabe]

Are you implying logic driven companies exist?

[derwildemomo]

yes, they do. I'm contracting (in germany, if that's important) and about a third of the companies that hire me have high or very high standards when it comes to avoiding technical debt, adherence to sane development cycles and clean code. So yes, there are those companies.

[pjmlp]

Sadly offshoring craziness seems to be increasing here.