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How screwed am I? (self.experienced_devs)
submitted 1 year ago by buxton to c/experienced_devs
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I started working for a big corporation about six months ago. Turns out a few months before I started there was a new CTO hired from a startup. This CTO has been on a hiring spree and basically hired all of the technical staff of the startup he came from (to the point that they're suing the company I work for).

All these people from the startup have their own office, away from all the corporate offices. And they're writing something (that they won't reveal) in what they refer to as their bunker. The best we can gather is that they're coming up with modern equivalents of all the backend services. This would mean that everything the devs do in the office I work in will be redundant.

I have the feeling that within a year or so (maybe less) there'll be mass layoffs of all the existing devs. Am I being paranoid?

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[–] nibblebit 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Counter point. Sounds like a c-level pet project on steroids. It doesn't sound like anyone is planning a migration. So they are relying on a big bang.

Now... A question for the panel: how would you say big bangs on corporate software projects with actual customers typically go?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do they typically go? They don’t ;)

[–] nibblebit 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If OP play their cards right they have a wonderful legacy support gig for life

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

COBAL is still a thing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

VIVA COBAL!

[–] kersplort 4 points 1 year ago

This is true, but it isn't good for OPs long term prospects either. Dumping a pile of money in a hole while taking on legal risk means that the losses are going to need to be made up somewhere.