I started at a company that didn't have software as a focus. Went to a consultancy and did work for quite a few companies. Eventually got hired by a division of a billionaire's conglomerate. And I get to interact with members of my profession in similar sorts of situations.
And personally, I've yet to get to the internals of a company and not find some amount of spit, glue, and rubber bands holding together critical infrastructure.
Like always, there's something somewhere that will make me go, "They do what?" and raise my eyebrows.
And while I personally have not witnessed it, I do have friends who have worked for FAANG level companies and there is some amount of cowboy-ness there too.
I started at a company that didn't have software as a focus. Went to a consultancy and did work for quite a few companies. Eventually got hired by a division of a billionaire's conglomerate. And I get to interact with members of my profession in similar sorts of situations.
And personally, I've yet to get to the internals of a company and not find some amount of spit, glue, and rubber bands holding together critical infrastructure.
Like always, there's something somewhere that will make me go, "They do what?" and raise my eyebrows.
And while I personally have not witnessed it, I do have friends who have worked for FAANG level companies and there is some amount of cowboy-ness there too.
We're all just kinda winging it.