Hi Deano,
How's your life in APDM?
May I ask your help? One of our former Unico colleagues is going to join DDC as a perm. She maybe starts working in APDM. Could you please advise, honestly, no bullshit, how good and bad working in APDM?
What I've heard from Post people that APDM is currently doomed. What the real situation like over there?
Thanks a lot.
Cheers,
Terrence
I really like working here. There are a lot of changes happening however.
In my case, if I wasn't learning new stuff like Clojure and Microservice Architectures there's no way I'd be here.
Therefore it depends very much what your friend is looking for and where she will work.
It is quite different for every person here. Give me some more detail about what role she might fill and I'll give you more feedback.
- Casual clothes.
- Mac Books
- Flexible hours (I start early)
- Laid back culture
- Working with really smart dev's
- Clojure, etc
- Realistic work-load.
Cons
- Legacy System (worst I've ever seen)
- SAFE process
- Drawn out release process due to the legacy system and it's complex environment.
Personally I really enjoy coming to work everyday but things could change a lot in the next six months/year.
Murray and his lot are starting to pull the strings over here and we all know the DDC guys do not like us using Clojure/Scala. They want us back using Java.
Give me more info about your friend and I'll let you know what it's like for other roles around here as I see them.
As an aside, they wanted me to become an Iteration Manager which I turned down.
Don't like a good developer be involved these kind stupid, political war.
Iteration Manager is a suck hole. People respect you because your tech capabilities, not your skills bullshitting and mucking around.