I’ve worked at plenty of places that are more like what you’re saying about FB, but they weren’t working on ISO 900x and CMMI certifications.
I was simply reflecting on the fact that we’ve got a lot of national Headquarters for companies here in the Phoenix area that ARE working on these certifications, and this has a certain depressing effect on wages when their goal is to make people in the same roles interchangeable. That’s what these efforts are all about — minimizing risk and reducing costs. They’re turning programming into a far less creative endeavor. That requires a more mechanized approach and less variability among workers. Maintenance programmers are simply required to take a bug ticket submitted with a documented way to reproduce the error and fix it without altering any other code. -David Schwartz > On Apr 25, 2024, at 1:51 PM, Ryan Petris <r...@petris.net> wrote: > > I can't say I've worked anywhere as strict as that, however I'll say that > like any other career field, there are good and bad work places. Places that > like to overly restrict things are going to lose good developers, and likely > don't pay well to begin with. > > I worked for Meta/Facebook for a year before I got laid off last year, and > I'll say that it was very much not like this. While you had regular projects > and whatnot going on, you were free to make changes you thought were > necessary or good changes to make. Now I didn't work on anything public > facing, as I'm certain there are certain controls on making changes to what > users can see, but otherwise any change just required approval from any other > developer, and it would make it into production 6 hours or so later. >
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