That has become one of my red flag. I want to deal with people and companies focused on the quality of their products and businesses, not on doing "shit" (taking their motto literally).
That has become one of my red flag. I want to deal with people and companies focused on the quality of their products and businesses, not on doing "shit" (taking their motto literally).
Another example of a field that I'm personally aware of and in which this kind of attitude should not be acceptable is cybersecurity. If your job is to protect people, then EVERYTHING you release has to be bulletproof.
Analysis Paralysis is a real thing. Sometimes you just have to do it.
The "move fast and break things" crowd are generally the same people that will choose to open things up in the name of "getting shit done". They'll drop firewalls, expose services publicly, and generally go out of their way to avoid security because they see it as a hurdle to achieving their primary goal. In my experience, this lack of foresight almost always causes cascading problems in the future that grow exponentially worse the longer they're left unchecked.
That's normally a red flag, for a banking business a mortal sin.
"Well at Google, they'd use a global distributed fault tolerant Hadoop cluster for their data store." "Dude??? We're building a Wordpress site. We're gonna run MySQL on the same shared server as the php code."
They had a big sign on the wall "Don't fuck the customer."
That's a much better ethos that "move fast and break things", or "Get shit done" in my mind... (Even if it is just performative customer facing propaganda, at least it shows that management understands that's a key requirement customers want to be told they'll meet...)
Don't move fast and break things. Move productively and build things.
it was a great place to work - engineering was pretty lax, most of us were there only from 10-4.
As in, spend your time making something you'd be proud to sign your name to.