• jetAEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Once the lead gets promoted for global impact, nobody else cares. There’s nobody to maintain it, there’s nobody to develop it. If you work on somebody else’s project it’s hard to claim you had global impact.

    What we’re seeing is promotion culture as seen by products. Nobody’s getting promoted running the old thing.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      This is a widespread problem in tech companies. Maintainers of existing code don’t get enough recognition. Often that work is more difficult than building new applications from scratch. But the person who builds a nice snappy prototype that can’t be scaled is hailed by management as a genius, while those who have to do the difficult work of developing it to a production ready state and maintaining it are seen as slow.

      I’m not bitter. Oh wait, I am bitter.