alt Hacker NewsConway's Law shines again!
It's amazing how much explanatory power it has, to the point that I can predict at least some traits about a company's codebase during an interview process, without directly asking them about it.
Conway's Law shines again!
It's amazing how much explanatory power it has, to the point that I can predict at least some traits about a company's codebase during an interview process, without directly asking them about it.
In this case, the more applicable are:
1. "Peter principle": "people in a hierarchy and organizations tend to rise to 'a level of respective incompetence' "
2. "Parkinson's law": "Work expands to fill the available time".
So people are filling all the available the time and working tirelessly to reach their personal and organizational levels of incompetency; working hard without stopping to think if what they are doing should be done at all. And nobody is stopping them, nobody asks why (with the real analysis of positives, negatives, risks).
Incompetent + driven is the worst combination there can be.