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Good Luck.

Also, it is mission critical and if it breaks the entire company goes down and no one knows why.

Good Luck. Also, it is mission critical and if it breaks the entire company goes down and no one knows why.
[–] • 6 pts

I'd like to see that code. Chances are it could be re-written from scratch to be more efficient and not be a time sink for programmers who try to use whatever poorly optimized code is there already. I've spent much of my career in programming throwing out someone else's bad code and re-evaluating the task at hand only to discover that they didn't even understand the requirements in the first place.

[–] • 3 pts

My primary job is to un-fuck what people before me created and when there is no documentation to also reverse engineer it and again.. un-fuck it and document it.

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

I've done that before. I have also written code using racist words as variable names AND wrote code on purpose to do nothing at all but look like it's critical.

EDIT: Come to think about it I never did find out if they ever figured out the bogus code I inserted was bogus or not. That was one place I really didn't trust any coworkers to follow up with.

[–] • 0 pt

That would be me. I was never good at programming