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  • basically where I work right now. our John sadly tried their best but the company did not hire any more engineers. he was the sole engineer for about 7 years and everything is built from the ground up by him. John came across weird issues and used a very stinky legacy language to fix those issues.

    about 9 years into his career they hired Andy and Andy tried to make as much sense of John’s code but it was challenging and for the next 5 or so years millions of dollars ran through an application made by 2 developers.

    anyways now I’m getting paid a lot of money because John does consulting and Andy found a way better job, but I also get the “house of cards” questions a lot.

    I think management thinks they can replace me as well because I came in here and things seem to be running after Andy’s departure.

    But if I quit or they fire me the entire company is going under as the next engineers in line will simply quit



  • I’ve met people like that too.

    It’s called cheating, lots of people do it.

    Most worthless dev I’ve met was a graduate of comp sci who couldn’t hold a candle compared to a guy that did a dev boot camp.

    The best dev I’ve met so far didn’t even have any credentials whatsoever, second next best did 2yr associates.

    Tie for 3rd best with associate’s and 4yr degree.