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0 pointswyldfire2y ago0 comments

This must be a typo - 50 or 500 lines maybe?

...or satire?

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I wish it had been satire. This was fundamentally one of the worst parts of my coding career, and it was disappointing because the company had been amazing to work for prior to this individual's arrival.

Post-arrival, I was ordered to rewrite a working, stable PHP web app into Go ("Google doesn't use PHP, because it doesn't scale"). We weren't allowed to write RESTful APIs any more, everything had to use Protobuf.

And there was a physical fight in the office one day between two of the developers, that culminated in one of them storming out and never coming back.

stephenorr2y ago

I should probably also point out that the "improved" architecture turned out to be corrupting customer data for more than 6 months... which led to termination of that individual.

I'd already left by that point, after a heated conversation in which I was told "you're not half as good a software engineer as you think you are". Well, duh.

Amusingly, the PHP app is still running, still working.

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stephenorr2y ago

And there was a physical fight in the office one day between two of the developers, that culminated in one of them storming out and never coming back.

stephenorr2y ago

I should probably also point out that the "improved" architecture turned out to be corrupting customer data for more than 6 months... which led to termination of that individual.

I'd already left by that point, after a heated conversation in which I was told "you're not half as good a software engineer as you think you are". Well, duh.

Amusingly, the PHP app is still running, still working.

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