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A quick snapshot into a company

I came to the realization recently. A company’s personality can be directly reflected with the code that their engineers produce. That is assuming that the company has engineers that produce code, otherwise this doesn’t really pertain to you does it?

Let me explain. A company with organized, commented and structured code is probably a company with strong processes and excellent developer support. It implies that developers and business requirements are in sync, and they’re given the opportunity to write good code. However code that is not readable, lacking in comments, messy and unclean could suggest that the company has little or no process, many changing requirements and priorities or has a lack of development support.

I mean, take this advice with a grain of salt there are always exceptions to a rule. I’m not saying that poor code will always suggest these symptoms. I am definitely not saying that it is all on the engineers to correct everything, and sometimes it isn’t all the management’s fault either sometimes engineers are just lazy.

And I mean, it isn’t just code. Accounting firms could have horrible book keeping, design firms create bad products and law firms have messy libraries of books. I just use code cause well, that’s what I understand.

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