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2 things I don't quite agree with...
1. that's not quite related to if they like coding, it's the fucker's attitude which is the issue
2. I doubt if they can learn good professional attitude at school... but hey, I can't suggest wherever else they can learn that. Fuck them.
I also have some team member who don't give a shit. When you ask him to do something and don't specify it's urgent, at the end of the day he'll simple say "bye bye, see you tomorrow". Or, if it's the middle of the day, he'll decide to leave the issue and have a long enjoyable lunch. -
Might be faking it till they make it (or crash and burn). See that kinda crap all too often in this line of work. Sometimes it can outright scary. I knew a guy that landed a job at a hospital as a lead systems engineer... A few months earlier he had asked me to explain the difference between public/private IPs, not to mention he had never used ifconfig before, nor did he have the slightest clue how DNS worked. But he didn't have to sell his skill set to someone in the field, he was interviewed by the unwashed. Glad to say though that I hear it didn't last long, and that he is now running a vlog full time. Still not sure he's qualified
I had a huge epiphany on Friday... not all developers enjoy coding.
Discovered when they brought down 2 of our environments, well told them what was wrong with the changes in their code that caused the environments to break, gave them links directly to the file in the gitlab repo that needed to be updated, and...
They fucking went home. The change would’ve taken all of about 30-45 seconds to update and they fucking left.
This person’s team lead come storming in pissed off because her manager is furious about 2 environments going down and preventing everyone else from being able to deploy their changes.
We provide the exact same details to the team lead about what needs to be changed, and advise that her team member took off....
30 mins later, her manager is storming up to us (devops/sre) livid as hell.
Explain the situation for a third time... manager is like, why can’t you guys fix it?
Look here you dense motherfuckers, we can fix the code. We can be the plumbers that clean up your shit. But what value do you gain as a developer if you don’t understand how the systems work and you keep pushing shit in?
Made the changes, fixed the environments, done right? Wrong.
The original developer made more changes not knowing what would happen and thoroughly fucked the environments again.
This dumb-fucking dumpster fire of a dude then sends us a slack message. “It’s down again, can you fix it?”
Our manager steps in and tells us to send him a link to the logs and have him fix it himself!
Thank goodness we have a badass manager.
Send logs, send repo file links (again), and send line numbers in the logs to try and help just a bit more. Dude goes almost the whole day without fixing it, environments are down, other devs are pissed, we throw this dude to the wolves. His manager starts to head over and was about to talk with my team lead when our manager steps out of his office and tells him the in’s and out’s of the situation and that our job isn’t to play log parser/error fixer for the developers. This dude that’s breaking the environments needs to be the one to fix the issue and his team lead should be aware of the problems and should have been able to correct his errors before it ever came to us.
The amount of hand-holding we do is ridiculous.
(Disclaimer, this one guy making some mistakes doesn’t sound too bad, but this is actually a common occurrence for like 40% of all of our developers)
We literally have interns still in college running circles around some of our full time devs. I know I’m not a developer, but for anyone that’s new-ish to developing, when you see shit like that please don’t lose hope. Those ass-hats got into programming purely for a paycheck, not because of passion.
Stick with it and your greatness will know no bounds π
As for you craptastic dipstick lickers, FUCK YOU!!! Go back to school and learn how to give a damn.
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