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Traubenfuchsyesterday at 7:15 PM1 replyview on HN

My company hired a lead architect and he stayed with us for less than a year. He introduced some overengineered shit we are still recovering from. How those people get to where they are and get hired for that kind of position is beyond me.


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about3fittyyesterday at 10:42 PM

I think this may be a consequence of hiring for a position with the word “architect” in it. It implies the need for complexity vs. Getting a gaggle of senior devs together and letting them sort out CI/CD and patterns as they are needed. In a lot of cases, an architect is not needed but must justify themselves.