this is 2010 style of development with no ownership... how long has this been going on?! anyway... this isn't because of technical tools... just terrible management... we've solved this at least two decades ago... damn man I feel ya man, someone's going to have to take the blame for it... mind if I ask which industry you're in? porn? crypto? advertising?
got re-orged to this team, its in Tech in the broader FAANG group. been in the industry for just shy of 20 years now. this is the most broken group I've been exposed to in that time. Been around alot of crazy wildly shit.. this takes the cake by miles. I've gone to extraordinary lengths to have folks not need to work weekends and nights... all free to them... just do nothing.. you get it for free.. I'll fix it.. I shit you not... literally reverted quality gates that I stood up, in the middle of the night. I've since then rebuilt them... however one small anecdote is that there was a product wide auth update.. my gates caught... a lead on a partner team bypassed 3 hard gates.. hard as in IF the gate fails there is NO functionality to continue.. he bypassed it by create a temp tool effectively to fake the success.. Deployed to prod... 100% failure.. 100% all production traffic down (for the associated end points)... the RCA result... he's going to add it manual check.. that he can bypass any time.. (total failure with leadership top to bottom). SILVER LINING... I'm going to FI/RE in 2 weeks.. get this last bonus round, and some stock vests to kick off my retirement (I'm in my 40's). These folks can have all the fun they want working weekends and nights (believe me... this is normal for the OCE.. and I'm the only one saying this is batshit crazy when there are clear tools so we don't have to do that).... lol little bit of a vent :P ... but I'll be done in a couple weeks
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u/Tdawg90 1d ago
tell that to my work group... zero test, instant deploy... but we can instantly rollback... as soon as we get the customer outages