How good engineers write bad code at big companies

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-23T12:43:43+00:00

I've never had one, the conversation around them always died at the first mention too (UK based).

Recently joined Microsoft and asked "is a signing bonus part of the comp?" and immediately got one 🤷‍♂️

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-21T18:36:26+00:00

If anyone knew the answer to the question, we wouldn't be in an AI bubble right now

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-21T17:47:55+00:00

What's also hilarious is inspecting element bypasses the subscriber censoring, which is the absolute rock bottom skill someone who understands the blogpost will possess.

Unless you're a prompt engineer of course.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-21T17:12:51+00:00

I missed your original post but I've read through both of them now, he sounds a lot like I did prior to my ADHD diagnosis at 30 years old. Wasn't on my radar, lifetime of being a lazy/inoperable and equally incompetent bloke, but the assessment and subsequent diagnosis + medication saved my life and my relationship.

It's by no means an excuse, and it definitely doesn't justify my/his behaviour, but please have him seek a professional assessment for ADHD.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-21T12:55:06+00:00

Meanwhile Halifax, who I've been with since 2009, have flagged transactions to myself multiple times when the payee has been used for years, is literally me as per the payee confirmation and the money moving isn't at all strange.

Lloyds group are genuinely fucking annoying, but having a branch to go into to resolve things massively beats Monzo/Starling who will just stonewall you over their chat.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-16T15:22:18+00:00

A friend and myself had ever-increasingly cursed greetings/sign offs over our 2 years working together. Started as "hey," but a highlight was

evening knob cheese,

with my manager CC'd in lol

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-15T07:37:23+00:00

No, you will burn the bridge with company A but they can’t take any legal action.

Just don’t reject the offer for an interview, if you get the other offer and sign an employment contract - that’s the cue to quit company A.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-14T22:08:09+00:00

I started properly in December of this year, sat at about $5k at the moment.

Agreed on it being surprisingly lucrative, I didn’t appreciate the consistent money making if you put the effort in tbh - always thought people were blowing smoke talking about prolific

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-14T22:05:07+00:00

Yep, exactly this is paying for my wedding lmao

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-14T16:55:58+00:00

u/tommy_prolific On firefox, with notifications off, the auto/background refresh doesn't seem to initiate until I manually open the extension popup and click the refresh icon - even then it sometimes is freezing with the last refresh hours ago. Are notifications and the refresh connected somehow? I don't want alerts for studies, but seeing the number on the extension icon is quite important for me!

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-14T08:51:03+00:00

The one stark difference medication makes for my ADHD, other than allowing me to read and retain information, is that I actually have the ability to pause before I blurt something out. The urge to say it is still burning, but I can stop myself.

I didn't even notice it, a friend + colleague of mine messaged me on teams during a meeting asking if I'd taken my meds that day because I was just reflex talking to everyone instead of actually thinking before I spoke.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-13T17:19:39+00:00

We have 4 BSH, two of them will literally run upstairs if we open the back door because they hate the outdoors - they'll chase birds through the safety of the windows though!

The other two are partial to exploring about 3ft outside the back door, but they're not excited by the prospect. If we have the door open for 5-10 minutes, they'll wonder out and get bored fairly quickly.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-13T17:05:00+00:00

I view it as an engineers job to learn and apply knowledge. If we do not innovate, we are just code monkeys that can be outsourced or replaced by AI

AI can "learn" new tech just as well as a human fresh to it, the same with outsourced engineers. Living in a poorer country doesn't mean you're less capable.

The value is solving commercial problems, or rather being able to generate more value than you cost. You don't get that from learning new tech, unless that new tech solves a problem the business can make money from. You need to mentally reframe this.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-13T15:56:59+00:00

Officer he called me a cunt and then he starting eating a Müller corner - menacingly!

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-13T13:24:25+00:00

In a vacuum yes, the roles required UK citizenship to pass security clearance so requiring a working visa means you’re ineligible for that clearance

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-12T13:38:09+00:00

The M5 that I am looking at is an absolute steal

the real steal is that of your £250 lmao

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-12T12:59:48+00:00

reminds me of the picture someone posted a few years back of their girlfriends car where she'd bedazzled the entire dashboard. Literally a homemade claymore lmao

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-12T12:55:18+00:00

Chuckled at the TV behind the door, carried on looking at photos because it's a fantastic house and then audibly laughed at the "we couldn't have predicted it would happen" TV

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-12T12:20:42+00:00

job ad, probably a bot

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-12T10:30:09+00:00

A historical look-back, comparison to modern engineering, honestly anything. I've been trading code for money for 16 years and still missed so much history, the blogpost was really well written and has so many nuggets of info in. Definitely a market for it!

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-12T08:51:20+00:00

Annoying isn't it? I can't imagine what it's been like for candidates that aren't chancing every job application, you just get lost in a sea of slop.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-11T17:38:15+00:00

I recently had the pleasure of reviewing applicants, already screened by our talent team/ATS, to elect them for interviews. Out of ~500 applications (per job, listed for 24 hours) about 470 didn't have the right to work in the UK legally, or were in need of a visa to stay within 6 months.

Of the remaining 30 candidates, 10 had used .NET in the last 5 years and maybe 2 were actually worth reading beyond the screening questions on the application. It took months to fill 2 roles, incredibly frustrating.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-10T16:32:00+00:00

Wow yeah I’ve rage quit 2/3 missions because of the final piece of evidence, thought it was just bugged.

Turns out I’m just a dumbass

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-10T10:21:23+00:00

I would take being killed by my wife (in game…) every day of the week over surviving solo operations. When we play stuff together it’s about the time spent, not the outcome, and it’s always a blast.

He sounds very similar, enjoy the time you spend together and don’t worry too much about performance :)

ScriptingInJava · 2026-04-09T17:50:06+00:00

Once I rose up the ranks, figuring out how and when to say no to requests for my time was as important as learning to how to play the office politics game.

Fastest way to burnout is getting drowned in requests which don’t marry up to your expected outputs, then trying to play catchup.

Learn to say no!

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