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> we are establishing a Chief Operating Officer with end-to-end P&L responsibility across content, hardware, platform, and services. Helen Chiang has been promoted to this role and will report directly to me
Seems tone deaf to do both of these messages at the same time.
I work in a code base like this. People's suggestion? Introduce React!
If I knew the first few mins of a standup were going to be a round table like "what's your all time fav book?", I would just join late.
My thoughts:
* Get the code in source control straight away
* Get the infrastructure stable and up to date if it's not
* Get CI pipelines set up. As part of this, make sure the code is running through a static analyser. This will give you a backlog of things to work on.
* Organize an external penetration test to be carried out
* Investigate updating and/or consolidating the software libraries used (Jquery etc)
* Choose a page/feature to update on its own. Bring it up to date.
At this point, you should be in a much better state and you will have learned a lot.
That is essentially saying that people who are software engineers have only one set of skills.. which is just false obviously.
Who gets the analytics from people's page views, browsing etc?
If we observed monkeys and saw that one was showered with gifts and jewellery their whole lives because they were offspring of two other particular monkeys.. we would chuckle at that. Not for being the strongest, tallest, biggest, smartest or best at something. Just for existing.