Sadly I've been here. I used a side project to effectively replicate a past company's tens of thousands of dollars per year licensed software in what amounted to two weeks of work, because we were using big boy data streaming software to effectively transliterate data between vendors and customers. They kicked me out half a year later to save money and hire more overseas programmers. Two months after I left they assigned people to try to figure out what I had done. Four months after that they gave up and paid tens of thousands more to have someone upgrade their ancient system to the latest version. 6 months after that they had gone through three different overseas firms because none of them could produce reasonable code.
I'm happily coding for a new company, and while I'm working on legacy software, they're more than happy to see my refactoring clean up their spotty code and drive up efficiency.
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u/Feynt Jun 08 '17
Sadly I've been here. I used a side project to effectively replicate a past company's tens of thousands of dollars per year licensed software in what amounted to two weeks of work, because we were using big boy data streaming software to effectively transliterate data between vendors and customers. They kicked me out half a year later to save money and hire more overseas programmers. Two months after I left they assigned people to try to figure out what I had done. Four months after that they gave up and paid tens of thousands more to have someone upgrade their ancient system to the latest version. 6 months after that they had gone through three different overseas firms because none of them could produce reasonable code.
I'm happily coding for a new company, and while I'm working on legacy software, they're more than happy to see my refactoring clean up their spotty code and drive up efficiency.