Progressing is cool, but having 10 yoe and still outputing spaghetti is bad. I am just saying if you care enough about what you are doing you are top 10% already
And as others have noted, how much time you are actually given. PMs and managers don’t know or care about code quality, they just want something to work NOW
My newest one is as impulsive as I am so the digressions he tasks me with have stalled out long term development plans, yet he’s oblivious enough of the situation to seriously ask why progress is taking so long every year during reviews.
The worst programmer I ever met was myself 6 months ago…
Progressing is cool, but having 10 yoe and still outputing spaghetti is bad. I am just saying if you care enough about what you are doing you are top 10% already
the quality of the code is dependent on the quality of the pay. lol
And as others have noted, how much time you are actually given. PMs and managers don’t know or care about code quality, they just want something to work NOW
My newest one is as impulsive as I am so the digressions he tasks me with have stalled out long term development plans, yet he’s oblivious enough of the situation to seriously ask why progress is taking so long every year during reviews.