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Learning With Legacy Code

Applications Developer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 6 years
August 12, 2020
Timişoara, Romania
4.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Lots of learning opportunities, courses, and certificates you can earn, and the approval process is fairly simple.

Multinational work environment.

Cons

Slowly moving related to agile, lots of projects are still with waterfall.

Corporate processes, approval for anything from management.

Lots of projects with old, legacy code.

Pay attention in the interview: you can arrive in a maintenance project, where you will have only 20-30% of development time. The rest is documentation writing and other administrative stuff, or parameter setting.

Advice to Management

Make processes as simple as possible.

Take care of updating the technology stacks. For example, a new project should not use a "still-supported" technology.

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