• HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOP
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    23 hours ago

    Anyone who had changed jobs because the software quality / technical debt was too bad? Do you agree with the article that the quality is becoming worse?

    • Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      14 hours ago

      On my third job in the two years of my career now, and this one and the previous one both had mountains of technical debt. I am actively looking for job 4 now, but this time I’m a bit more cautious. (Job 2 counter-offered a 1000+€ raise and I turned it down for having basically the same wage at job 3 because it supposedly would be a better technical environment. It is not.)

      The only common denominator between the last two is that both are small-ish and ERP software so idk. [Edit: also ‘me’, but for sure it can’t be this bad everywhere right]

      And for both it was caused by a very short-term way of looking at things. (Sure we could speed up development by X2, but that would take two months and the client wants this feature now)

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      19 hours ago

      Here. The tooling was no fun as a consequence.

      And yes, i agree that overall software quality goes downhill.