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6 Lessons I learned from working at a dysfunctional workplace!

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Drew Robson
Drew Robson
Consultant

There's a good reason why the survival rate for companies on a long enough timeline is zero. Most become so inefficient that they'll be beaten by a smaller, more efficient competitor at some point.

Depends on the market and it's barrier to entry, also if you've reached the "Too big too fail" stage you can be as inneficient as you want that you will be saved by the tax payer (e.g: GFC 2008, YPF in the late 2000s, etc)

Im not against efficiency by itself, but I have seen enough profitable industrial workflows running on tech debt from the early 80s that it made me realize that the world is not fair from an software engineering PoV. I wouldn't be surprised to know that my mortgage is processed by a system that nobody knows how it works and has no source code running on vb 5.0 on a physical server from 1997 on Windows ME

6 Lessons I learned from working at a dysfunctional workplace!