I'm pretty certain that anyone directly involved with that was prosecuted in some way, including developers that knowingly helped.
On Thu, Apr 25, 2024, at 2:47 PM, greg zegan via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > Has anyone worked in foreign country like Germany as a developer or IT > personal? > I wonder how they treat workers and the quality usually is pretty good for > the end product. > They were so good they were able to fix the computer system for the VWs to > not work during emissions tests so they could pass easily. > Volkswagen emissions scandal - Wikipedia > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal> > > > > > Volkswagen emissions scandal - Wikipedia > > The Volkswagen emissions scandal, sometimes known as Dieselgate[23][24] or > Emissionsgate,[25][24] began in Septe... > > > > > > > On Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 02:43:46 PM MST, David Schwartz via > PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > > > 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. >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
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