Software engineers should be a little bit cynical(seangoedecke.com)

266 points by zdw 10 months ago | 194 comments

Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases(seangoedecke.com)

695 points by BerislavLopac 1 year ago | 307 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke on common mistakes engineers make when working in large, decade-old codebases with hundreds of contributors.

How I ship projects at big tech companies(seangoedecke.com)

1297 points by gfysfm 1 year ago | 360 comments

Sean Goedecke's blog post on how he leads and ships projects at big tech companies, and the common mistakes engineers make when shipping.

Doing nothing at work(seangoedecke.com)

334 points by Sukram21 4 months ago | 116 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke arguing engineers should work fewer hours at ~80% utilization because tech company performance is dominated by outlier, high-impact events.

How good engineers write bad code at big companies(seangoedecke.com)

348 points by gfysfm 11 months ago | 236 comments

Sean Goedecke blog post explaining why competent engineers at big tech companies produce sloppy code, citing short tenures and engineers working outside their expertise.

Knowing where your engineer salary comes from(seangoedecke.com)

261 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 144 comments