Tales from inside Big Tech
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In which The Lotus Eaters discuss a Twitter thread in which a man discusses what its like on the inside of an unnamed major tech company. Validity is gained by the fact that Twitter censored the thread and it is now only available by archive.
The TLDR is that most of these companies have become more or less adult daycares with emotionally damaged employees who do almost no work. And the only reason any of this shit keeps working is due to old code from the before times that a lot of the new hires have no idea how it works and managements only hope is that no one breaks something important. Because if something breaks, it probably wont be able to be fixed. Carl points out how this very much reminds him of the state of the Imperium from Warhammer 40K.
To be fair that sounds like almost every tech company. Often it's spaghetti code written years ago by the boss himself and even trying to refactor it might break the very foundations of the business platform so nobody is allowed to touch it.
But at least in small companies the nepotism is usually family and friends getting promoted when they don't deserve it - not because they share woke ideological beliefs.
I think the bigger issue with most of the big boys is that they have started throwing their weight around to try and crush competition so others cant compete, and its inevitably going to make things that much worse when their stuff inevitably breaks and now vast swaths of the internet dont work because of borked spaghetti code.
I haven't seen that in some of my smaller companies. The Software Developers are a bit too protective of the applications they are building, and aren't commenting it enough, but I wouldn't say complete and total incompetency.