Six years at one company, three weeks at a ten-person startup, and I still flinch every time someone says 'just ship it'
Old place had a review process with actual gates. Here 'ship it' apparently means it's live in production in the next twenty minutes, no staging environment to speak of. Nobody's died yet. I keep waiting for the part where someone tells me to slow down and it hasn't come. Trying to figure out if this is exhilarating or just reckless and I haven't been here long enough to tell the difference.
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AnonymousAnon Following up on the rollback question above, honestly the scariest part for me wouldn't be the lack of staging, it'd be finding out after the fact what the actual blast radius of 'ship it' is. Might be worth just asking straight out in your next 1:1 what happens when something does break, rather than waiting to find out live.
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AnonymousAnon Six years of gates does something to your nervous system, it takes a while to recalibrate. Give it two more months before you decide if it's reckless or just a different definition of careful.
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AnonymousAnon The lack of staging would have me way more nervous than you sound. Curious if they have decent rollback tooling at least, or if 'ship it' also means 'and if it breaks you're the one un-shipping it at 11pm.'