arrjayh · HackerTrans

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~20 engineers, ~3 people managers. From what I recall the team had high attrition and shuffled through a number of people managers. When I joined 1 manager was new hire, 1 manager was new-ish hire, 1 manager was fairly seasoned at Riot and had a "good reputation". Was still a total mess.

arrjayh

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> My experience at big corporate is that (edit: unmanageable) tech debt is caused by undisciplined and unorganized scrum team.

Yeah, this is 100% correct. I comically left Riot after ~6 months for this exact reason. Obviously it's a large company with many different flavors of teams, and it sounds like this team maybe has gotten it together, but by in large most haven't.

While I was there I was working on some of their core games tooling and felt uneasy about my day-to-day. My teams tech debt was quite literally owning them. Constantly missing sprint scopes, spending countless hours arguing and debating about trivial stuff, it was all a mess. They ended up laying off a number of people from that team in a pretty shifty manner so maybe things have gotten better since then.

arrjayh

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Yes, you should absolutely care.

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What in the actual, 6.2 GHz!? The power draw must be insane.

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Do they really? that seems difficult to navigate

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Probably because they couldn't hire effectively?

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This is brilliant. I'm a mid-level engineer with decent C/C++/Rust background. Have yet to find a team like this. I'm inspired by your story to keep searching!

arrjayh

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This is awesome! I've become preconditioned to seeing slow buggy demos. This is snappy and a great representation of HTMX. Good work!

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I'm working through this exact situation right now, I really appreciate this insight!

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Can't add much more than what's already been said here but I'm glad to see more presence of this on the internet. Grew up in IL, this was largely unspoken + alcohol and drug abuse.

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I nominate SDL2 and DPDK. Spent a lot of time combing through these code bases, found them to be excellent.

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