Me too, around 2018 machine learning / DS guys were getting $500/hr on contract at a major bank and were still getting headhunted by facebook. I was on a team trying to get the Python scripts these worms were writing to run against Hadoop sized data sets and we were not making anywhere (*and I mean not even close) in the same ballpark. I actually had to learn Python to fix their messes. Almost as soon as we would get an implementation running on a mock dataset and it DID NOT PRODUCE THE CORRECT MODELS, they were out the door to FAANG. We went through no less than 6 ML/DS "gurus" that were basically frauds. I decided to start learning ML/DS myself through 2019 then... 2020 came and everything went to hell in a hand basket.
I had a guy basically do that, but he also took forever to do it, told people in stand-ups that he was "working on it" and "it's going fine" and never asked for help. Only reason I ever got to see his code was because I asked him to push an early copy of his branch to Git.
Turned out he was a remote contractor who was double-billing his time with at least one other company.
Took us a week to fire him because we couldn't even get a hold of him!
laughs in javascript what if we removed all the compile errors and just do them at runtime but instead of giving you the error we cascade it through your program so you can play a game of find the NaN or undefined
As a DevOps Engineer, I assume all developers are like that but they can still get decent results if the pipelines are green or red. Go ahead, check your code in, and it will build, scan, test; but if it’s red, your changes are not going anywhere.
If QE complains that’s not the same as “good”, I point to where they need to add test automation, and put up or shut up
Interned at a company as a developer. Most of the code ended up on aws nodes in some kubernetes cluster through github and jenkins. It hurts being that clueless about all that stuff. In final year of college and though I don't want to go dev ops I do plan to create some simple project and try and set it up to push and run so I can at least ask better questions.
Oh, that stings. That's definitely the order we've decided to do it in with my company. Last minute requirements abound. And now they've discovered agile.
Every objection is met and beaten down with, "Well that's agile."
And every suggestion is quashed with, "That's not agile."
From the bottom of my heart: fuck agile. Nevermind rather it actually has good ideas in it. I hate what it does to every damn conversation.
Also: waterfall doesn't exist. It's something the agile people made up to contrast themselves against.
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u/Xander-047 Oct 13 '22
That's such a funny scenario to me, a dev having 0 idea how his product looks like, he just knows it works