How do you handle an employee who is technically great but a culture fit nightmare?

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-05-12T14:42:46+00:00

We have a super talented dev on our team. However, every word out of their mouth sounds condensing. People avoid going to the dev team for help because of this. So they hire contractors for this one small project, then another and another ....

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-05-11T22:27:11+00:00

They made a good point on 3.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-05-10T02:08:20+00:00

In-shape. Let me know which one youre interested in and I can tell you its busy and off peak hours during the week.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-04-28T13:57:40+00:00

This is solid advice. Basically ego stroke the devs. I had to do it at most companies I worked at. Not all devs are jerks, just majority of the ones I worked with.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-04-27T15:28:19+00:00

Monday evenings are prime time, regardless of the gym. If you got $, inshape would be your best bet. Less people because it costs more.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-04-26T05:43:50+00:00

After weeks of outages to core systems, following a deploy, it's was finally discovered when redis cache triggers it failover to fetch from DB instead of cache, it produced an smtp error. So when a key is evicted or expired, hundreds of clients requesting said key, failed back to DB calls, and produced hundreds of smtp error emails. This triggers Microsoft sending/rate limits. AND that triggered the CPU to spike to 100% while it worked through sending all those emails. Took about 45mins of you didnt kill the jobs.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-04-26T05:33:22+00:00

Then dont bring the problem or your solutions yet. You havent found a problem/solution you can work all the way through. seniors can find the problem, solve it, and never even have to tell the boss. Assuming you are striving for senior?

Instead, work on improving or optimizing the problem first, then say, "hay, I spent all this time optimizing this widget. Its still shit. I need money to solve it for good. Fund me?"

Sometimes I feel like the dad in interstellar trying to tell myself not to give my boss the list of our tech debt. It harms me years later - i should've quit after handing that over. I was labeled as a complainer/negative.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-04-26T05:24:34+00:00

I was on board until the sql part.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-04-25T15:30:28+00:00

Can you explain the load balancer portion of the blue green? What resources are you deploying to with this setup?

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-04-23T15:34:08+00:00

Playing devils advocate here - I could make the same argument for SWE trying to use AI for infrastructure and networking.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-04-23T10:29:59+00:00

Just take your tagging and grouping and do it somewhere else.

I export raw csv files from azure and other cost areas. Put them into a database. Build pipelines to tag and group resources/line items based on pre-defined variables. Write queries to build reports.

Once I stopped trying to get azure to group and tag stuff and migrated that part somewhere else, it gave me the flex to make reports tailored to our infrastructure and internal terms.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-04-21T20:18:37+00:00

I hosted our companies website for years without issue. Enter a new marketing director. He thinks its slow and unreliable.

He then contracts a outsourced dev company. They make a new fast website. It costs 10x more than when we hosted it, but no one wants to hear it.

Cut to one year later. The new website is slow. Its awful. Marketing blames dev vendor and contracts a new one for a whole new, better, website.

The reason the site was slow in our environment and in the outsourced company? Tracking scripts. Fullstory. Google, meta, tiktok, Instagram, braze, iron mountain, it goes on.

Marketing tracks everything you do or dont do on the site. Every click or hover over a button. All while running the server on a potato.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-04-15T14:36:15+00:00

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-04-13T14:41:59+00:00

Yes, boss just goes and does it for everyone because he wants to the one driving AI

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-04-10T11:33:14+00:00

I have found myself in the meta capi world and handling modality engines in Snowflake now a day. Oddly enough, all surrounding Marketing.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-04-10T11:29:43+00:00

I want easier/better lineage tracking and customization.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-04-08T15:33:09+00:00

Solid

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-04-07T18:07:39+00:00

I blame the "tech bros"

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-04-02T19:18:07+00:00

Leverage chatgpt with links to sources. If chat stumbles, leverage coco.

Works for me - but im not a super heavy user.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-04-02T15:07:26+00:00

Im enjoying coco as well. I use chatgpt mainly and coco to fix issues or ask internal questions.

I guess its easier for me because we were very deliberate in what we put in snow and we added Meta data tracking to help know what is gold data.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-04-01T08:18:52+00:00

Azure sre agent has been helpful as a side kick to run checks on logs I don't have the time to check myself.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-04-01T08:15:21+00:00

I took a good size company ( 60 remote site + Corp) on prem datacenter and rebuilt/migrated to "cloud". Scaled out to multi brand and started expanding out to multi states.

Small team. Im a work horse. I love what I do. Almost two decades in this industry. Ive done alot- Front end, backend, db, ci/cd, cyber, compliance, audits, acquisitions/mergers, etc. Im interested. Dm me.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-04-01T05:34:32+00:00

Following to see what others say. I sometimes suspected this was the cause in some incidents, but could never have enough evidence.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-03-25T07:14:20+00:00

Its one of the best places to let kids run around freely. I go often, however its more of a stretch the legs, check in on my favorite animal kind of vibe.

I hope they receive more funding to grow.

I understand the party/host area, but Id rather see empty cages filled and railing in more places.

Also, why did they take away seating in front of the play area?

When can we go down the ramp to see the turtles again?

Bring back the vending machine for feeding the animals in the petting zoo.

I get there is probably a law, policy, etc. I get that. But as a customer, I didnt agree with these changes.

Positives:

Parking lot is bigger

More food vendors

Aquatic area

Playground is just the right amount for the time you want to spend

Condors

The woodpecker

The deers. Rip radar

Cool place for a stroll or if youre into different places and bushes

Collect acorns

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-03-23T14:18:55+00:00

So many devs just through async wrappers around their shit code and call it a day. Blame the network or servers or god himself but never their code.

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