alt Hacker NewsI am engineer by trade. If I pushed an update which wrongly busted my customer's usage limits at a trillion dollar company, I would expect to get fired. Alongside my EM.
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michaelmrose • yesterday at 5:40 PM
I would expect someone would be critiqued to avoid it re-occurring and the persons money to be refunded. A company which fires so trivially will quickly flush institutional knowledge and team cohesion along with eating substantial recruitment costs.
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colechristensen • yesterday at 5:46 PM
This is not how any engineering workplace anywhere operates.
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Regardless of your expectations (I'm not criticizing them), that is just not how it works at most American companies. Especially not for your manager.